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The “sport” of rough contacts and the fractal paradox in wear laws
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2367
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Journal Article
Date Issued
2018
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Papangelo, Antonio
Institut
TORE-DOI
TORE-URI
Journal
Volume
16
Issue
1
Start Page
65
End Page
75
Citation
Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering 1 (16): 65-75 (2018)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
Univ.
In a recent paper in Science, namely, “The Contact Sport of Rough Surfaces”, Carpick summarizes recent efforts in a “contact challenge” to predict in detail an elastic contact between the mathematically defined fractal rough surfaces under (very little) adhesion. He also suggests the next steps that are needed to “fulfill da Vinci’s dream of understanding what causes friction”. However, this is disappointing as friction has been studied since the times of Leonardo and in 500 years, no predictive model has emerged, nor any significant improvement from rough contact models. Similarly, a very large effort we have spent on the “sport” of studying rough surfaces has not made us any closer to being able to predict the coefficient of proportionality between wear loss and friction dissipation which was already observed by Reye in 1860. Recent nice simulations by Aghababaei, Warner and Molinari have confirmed the criterion for the formation of debris of a single particle, proposed in 1958 by Rabinowicz, as well as Reye’s assumption for the proportionality with frictional loss, which is very close to Archard anyway. More recent investigations under variable loads suggest that Reye’s assumption is probably much more general than Archard’s law. The attempts to obtain exact coefficients with rough surfaces models are very far from predictive, essentially because for fractals most authors fail to recognize that resolution-dependence of the contact area makes the models very ill-defined. We also suggest that in the models of wear, rough contacts should be considered “plastic” and “adhesive” and introduce a new length scale in the problem.
Subjects
Rough Contact
Fractals
Adhesive Wear
Reye’s Law
Archard’s Law
Rabinowicz’ Criterion
DDC Class
600: Technik
More Funding Information
DFG (German Research Foundation) for funding the project HO 3852/11-1.
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