The current work considers the multi-scale nature of surface roughness in a new model that predicts the real area of contact and surface separation as functions of load. This work is based upon a previous rough surfacemulti-scale contactmodelwhichused stackedelastic–plastic spheres tomodel themultiple scales of roughness. Instead, this work uses stacked 3D sinusoids to represent the asperities ...

Friction is a classical field that goes back to Leonardo da Vinci, Guilliame Amonton, and Charles Augustin de Coulomb. Amonton found that friction force is proportional to normal load, but surprisingly is independent of the area of the apparent contact surface. This observation is known as the Amonton’s paradox. The apparent contact surface is the geometric object surface projected to the conta...

skid resistance and road condition are common indices of road safety; therefore providing adequate skidding resistance will reduce the incidence of road accidents. the surface macrotexture has a large effect on the characteristics of road surface skidding, which is the focus of this research. during the study, the mean texture depth of the road surface was measured, in order to determine the co...

A practical application of the spherical involute surface to the forged straight bevel gears is provided and demonstrated in this work. Conjugate (pure involute) theoretical surfaces are developed from the input design parameters. The surfaces are modified to suit the actual application (automotive differential). The unloaded (or low load) tooth contact analysis of modified surfaces is performe...

In recent years, plasma treatments have given good results since they offer high technological efficiency with low waste generation. One of the most important characteristics of plasma methods is their action only on a thin surface layer, whereas the bulk of sample remains unchanged and the modified material keeps its chemical and mechanical properties. In this research, polyurethane membrane s...

in this paper, the effect of air relative humidity and capillary force on contact geometry of surfaces based on jkr model by atomic force microscopy was investigated in order to manipulate nano-particles. with transition from macro to nano-scale, the effect of surface forces becomes more significant in comparison with inertial force. because contact mechanics models are based on surface energy ...