摘要

The cross-sections formed by the contact asperities of two rough surfaces at an interference are actually island-shaped, rather than having the commonly assumed circular or elliptic contour. These island-shaped contact area contours show fractal behavior with fractal dimension D(s) of the two-dimensional profile. The three-dimensional surface fractal dimension for the topography of asperity heights is defined as D and the topothesy is defined as G. In Mandelbrot's study, the relationship between D and D(s) was given as D = D(s) + 1 if these two fractal dimensions are obtained before contact deformation. in the present study, D, G, and D(s) are considered to be varying with the mean separation between two contact surfaces. The D-D(s) relationships for the contacts at the elastic, elastoplastic, and fully plastic deformation regimes are derived and the inceptions of the elastoplastic and fully plastic deformation regimes are redefined using the equality of two expressions established in two different ways for the number of contact spots (N). A revised elastic-plastic contact model of a single fractal asperity is also proposed. The revised model shows that a fractal asperity behaves according to classical contact mechanics, but not those predicted by the MB model. The contact parameters, including the total force and the real contact area, were evaluated when the size distribution functions (n) for the three deformation regimes were available. The results indicate that both the D and D(s) parameters in these deformation regimes increased with increasing mean separation.

  • 出版日期2010-1-4
  • 单位中国人民解放军空军电子技术研究所