Elsevier Discrete Contact Mechanics with Applications in Tribology (Elsevier Series on Tribology and Surface Engineering)

Discrete Contact Mechanics with Applications in Tribology presents new solutions to contact problems for elastic and viscoelastic bodies in normal, sliding, and rolling contact, taking into account effects such as surface microgeometry, adhesion, fluid films, and viscous hysteresis in bulk material or surface layers. These solutions are applied to problems in tribology for modeling contact and friction of bodies with surface microgeometry (rough or textured). The book provides exact mathematical formulations for cases of discrete contact based on classical approaches of contact mechanics, allowing readers to study the influence of different parameters of surface microgeometry on contact characteristics and friction force. The book will help solve problems in modeling contact and friction interaction in cases of discrete character of contact interaction, mutual influence of individual contact spots in contact interaction of elastic and viscoelastic solids, calculating sliding and rolling friction forces as a result of adhesive and viscoelastic mechanisms of dissipation, and more. Review Presents solutions to contact problems for elastic and viscoelastic bodies in normal, sliding, and rolling contact, including applications in tribology From the Back Cover <i>Discrete Contact Mechanics with Applications in Tribology </i>presents new formulations and solutions to contact problems for elastic and viscoelastic bodies in normal, sliding, and rolling contact, taking into account various effects such as surface microgeometry, adhesion, fluid films, and viscous hysteresis in bulk material or surface layers. These solutions are then applied to problems in tribology for modeling contact and friction of bodies with surface microgeometry (rough or textured). It provides exact mathematical formulations for cases of discrete contact based on classical approaches of contact mechanics, allowing readers to accurately study the influence of different parameters of surface microgeometry on the contact characteristics and friction force. It will help solve problems in modeling contact and friction interaction in cases of discrete character of contact interaction, mutual influence of individual contact spots in contact interaction of elastic and viscoelastic solids, calculating sliding and rolling friction forces as a result of adhesive and viscoelastic mechanisms of dissipation, and more. About the Author Irina Goryacheva is a Professor and Head of the Tribology Laboratory of Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics. She is the author of more than 200 papers and 6 books in the field of contact mechanics and tribology and has developed analytical methods of solution of contact problems for deformable bodies with various surface geometry taking into account the effects of mutual influence of contact spots, wear, adhesion, surface films and layers, and inhomogeneity of material properties. Yulia Makhovskaya is Senior Researcher, Tribology Laboratory of Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics, and she specializes in the field of contact mechanics and tribology, in particular modeling adhesive contact of elastic and viscoelastic bodies with surface microgeometry.