Title: Contact Mechanics Analysis of a Rubber Piece on a Smooth Plate
Abstract: In order to elucidate contact and friction characteristics of rubbers, numerical analysis of asperity contact mechanics of a rubber piece with a smooth glass plate was carried out on the basis of an asperity contact model that considers van der Waal’s (vdW) pressure. First, by ignoring vdW pressure and the elastic deformation of the mean height surface, asperity contact characteristics were analyzed using the measured Young’s modulus, and surface parameter values that could yield the measured contact area were estimated. Next, asperity contact characteristics were analyzed by considering the vdW pressure and elastic deformation of a rough sphere that is a model of a large-scale asperity having small-scale asperities. It was found that the actual contact area was similar to the measured contact area; this result could not be obtained without assuming an rms asperity height of ∼0.1 μm for the small-scale asperities. It was also found that the friction coefficient decreased with an increase in the applied pressure in the cases where the friction force is proportional to the real area of contact and to the real internal contact pressure.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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