AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE THIRD BODY MODELLING IN FRETTING WEAR CONTACT: A MINIREVIEW

In fretting wear contact, the third body is defined as the wear debris bed between two contacting bodies. The problem of third-body modelling is considered from a point of view of contact mechanics. This paper is restricted to a discussion of recent developments in analytical modelling of fretting wear contact

An asymptotic model of vibroadhesion

A compliantly fixed hemispherical indenter in adhesive contact with an elastic sample firmly bonded to a rigid base is considered under the assumption that the rigid base undergoes small-amplitude high-frequency normal (vertical) oscillations. A general law of the rate-dependent JKR-type adhesion is assumed, which relates the work of adhesion to the contact front velocity. Using the Bogoliubov averaging approach in combination with the method of harmonic balance, the leading-order asymptotic model is constructed for steady-state vibrations. The effective work of adhesion is evaluated in implicit form. A quasi-static approximation for the pull-off force is derived. The case of rigid fixation of the indenter is considered in detail