“…The general case of multiple-zone sliding contact involving a thermo-elastic and anisotropic half-space was also studied [6]. More recently, Lykotrafitis et al [7] treated the rapid sliding indentation of a deformable half-space by a rigid stamp of a flat elliptical base, and representative numerical results were presented to demonstrate the effects of the stamp speed, stamp geometry and parameters of the thermo-elastic solid on the contact displacement. In these studies, the involving materials are purely elastic.…”