  This contribution presents an asymptotic formulation for the stick-slip
behaviour of incomplete contacts under oscillatory variation of normal load,
moment, shear load and differential bulk tension. The asymptotic description
allows us not only to approximate the size of the slip zones during the
steady-state of a cyclic problem without knowledge of the geometry or contact
law, but provides a solution when all known analytical solutions for incomplete
contacts reach their limitations, that is, in the presence of a varying moment
and a differential bulk tension large enough to reverse the direction of slip
at one end of the contact. An insightful comparison between the mathematically
explicit analytical solution and the asymptotic approach is drawn using the
example geometry of a shallow wedge.
