Abstract A numerical method is proposed to evaluate the effect of non‐Gaussian roughness on point contact elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL). mixed EHL model contact, considering roughness, developed. The oil film pressure in was controlled by Reynolds equation average flow, and asperity obtained rough surface micro‐contact model. influence parameters distribution, thickness profile ratio loa...

We present a series of molecular dynamics simulations of single asperity contact and deformation that occurs as two rough surfaces are brought together, loaded and then separated. We monitor the force between the two surfaces, the total potential energy, the Q6 order parameter, the effective minimum contact radius and the conductance (using the modified Sharvin equation). The deformation is obs...

The well-recorded strong ground motion data for the 23:19 aftershock of the 15 October 1979 Imperial Valley earthquake provide a good opportunity to study the high-frequency source characteristics and the path effects at near-source distances. The best-firing point source model has a strike-slip mechanism, N40°W, which is nearly identical to the main event. The estimated stress drop is extremel...

We demonstrate measurement and control of single-asperity friction by using cantilever probes featuring an in situ solid-state heater. The heater temperature was varied between 25 and 650 °C (tip temperatures from 25 ± 2 to 120 ± 20 °C). Heating caused friction to increase by a factor of 4 in air at ∼ 30% relative humidity, but in dry nitrogen friction decreased by ∼ 40%. Higher velocity reduce...

Three-dimensional surface geometry of rock discontinuities and its evolution with shearing are of great importance in understanding the deformability and hydro-mechanical behavior of rock masses. In the present research, surfaces of three natural rock fractures were digitized and studied before and after the direct shear test. The variography analysis of the surfaces indicated a strong non-line...

The effect of a height-dependent asperity radius of curvature is accounted for in a recently developed scaledependent model of contact and friction. The contact and friction model includes the effects of adhesion, using the Maugis model, and of scale-dependent friction, using the Hurtado and Kim single asperity friction model. This multiasperity model has been modified to include the effect of ...

The running-in wear of a multi-asperity silicon carbide sphere-on-silicon flat interface is investigated at the micro- and nanoscale in relation to friction behaviour an unlubricated macroscale tribological system sliding unidirectional mode. Experiments contact simulations indicated that during was governed by roughness asperities on sphere their influence interfacial pressure. Specific plough...