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Adhesive wear regimes on rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts

Pham-Ba, Son  
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Molinari, Jean-François  
2021
Tribology Letters

We develop an analytical model of adhesive wear between two unlubricated rough surfaces, forming micro-contacts under normal load. The model is based on an energy balance and a crack initiation criteria. We apply the model to the problem of self-affine rough surfaces under normal load, which we solve using the boundary element method. We discuss how self-affinity of the surface roughness, and the complex morphology of the micro-contacts that emerge for a given contact pressure, challenge the definition of contact junctions. Indeed, in the context of adhesive wear, we show that elastic interactions between nearby micro-contacts can lead to wear particles whose volumes enclose the convex hull of these micro-contacts. We thereby obtain a wear map describing the instantaneous produced wear volume as a function of material properties, roughness parameters and loading conditions. Three distinct wear regimes can be identified in the wear map. In particular, the model predicts the emergence of a severe wear regime above a critical contact pressure, when interactions between micro-contacts are favored.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s11249-021-01471-5
ArXiv ID

arXiv:2102.01210v1

Author(s)
Pham-Ba, Son  
Molinari, Jean-François  
Date Issued

2021

Published in
Tribology Letters
Volume

69

Start page

107

Note

16 pages, 14 figures, published in Tribology Letters. This is an Open Access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

URL
http://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01210.pdf
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REVIEWED

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