Spheres and Cylinders/Wheels: Hertzian Stress

[Flashlight237]

So apparently to work with spheres or anything rounded, we need Hertzian Stress, which looks like this: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/289543/pressure-of-a-sphere-against-the-ground

And there's a calculator for that sort of stuff: https://www.mesys.ch/calc/hertz.fcgi?lang=en

Question is, how are we supposed to apply this to our calcs?

 

[KLOL506]

@DontTalkDT @Executor_N0

 

[Tago238]

What's being described here is how the pressure on a circular object meeting a plane (or anything else that doesn't match its geometry really varies with 1)space (across the contact area) and 2)time of collision. As our current system for frag values and whatnot only talks about the force present in the collision, which decidedly doesn't change regardless of the contact area or position in the contact area, this doesn't matter.

 

[DontTalkDT]

We don't.