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Elastic-plastic spherical contact modeling including roughness effects

  • L. Li
  • , I. Etsion*
  • , F. E. Talke
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The effect of material properties and surface roughness on the contribution of asperities and sphere bulk displacements to the total displacement of a rough spherical contact is investigated. A dimensionless transition load, above which the contribution of the bulk displacement exceeds the contribution of the asperities displacement, is found as a function of the plasticity index and dimensionless critical interference of the sphere bulk. A criterion is proposed for evaluating the importance of surface roughness in calculating the displacement of a rough spherical contact. Some experimental results with a spherical micro-contact are presented to verify the model.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)357-363
Number of pages7
JournalTribology Letters
Volume40
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2010

Keywords

  • Contact mechanics
  • Plasticity index
  • Rough surface
  • Spherical contact

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