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Friction behavior at fretting interfaces is of fundamental interest in tribology and is important in material applications. However, friction has contact intervals, which can accurately determine the friction characteristics of a material; however, this has not been thoroughly investigated. Moreover, the fretting process with regard to different interfacial configurations have also not been systematically evaluated. To bridge these research gaps, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on Al-Al, diamond-diamond, and diamond-silicon fretting interfaces were performed while considering bidirectional forces. This paper also proposes new energy theories, bonding principles, nanoscale friction laws, and wear rate analyses. With these models, semi-quantitative analyses of coefficient of friction (CoF) were made and simulation outcomes were examined. The results show that the differences in the hardness, stiffness modulus, and the material configuration have a considerable influence on the fretting process. This can potentially lead to the force generated during friction contact intervals along with changes in the CoF. The effect of surface separation can be of great significance in predicting the fretting process, selecting the material, and for optimization.
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This study is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51575340, 51875343) and State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibrations Project (Grant No. MSVZD201912). We are grateful to Shi CHEN (Ph.D. student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Junyu CHEN (Ph.D. student, University of California-Los Angeles) for their useful comments and proofreading.
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Zhinan ZHANG. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2011 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. After that he was a post doctor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is now working as an associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include computational design and analysis of tribosystems, and theory and methods of design engineering and innovation.
Shuaihang PAN. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering and B.A. in German in 2016 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is now working as a graduate researcher at University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in pursuit of a Ph.D. degree. His research focuses on triboelectric effect, novel nanocomposites, and electrical/thermal transport phenomena.
Nian YIN. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering in 2017 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. He is now a master student in School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on computational design of materials, triboelectric effect, and development of tribology testing instruments.
Bin SHEN. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. After that he was a post doctor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is now working as an associate professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include diamond and graphene based tribological and anti-corrosion coatings, and super-hard and smart coating for cutting tools.
Jie SONG. He received his B.A. degree in physics in 2009 from Lanzhou University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in biophysics in 2014 from Aarhus University, Denmark. Then he worked as a post doctor in Aarhus University, Denmark and Emory University, US, for two years. He is now a distinguished research fellow from the Department of Instrument Science and Engineering in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His current research focuses on medical instrument development, high resolution dynamic imaging, single cell manipulation, and DNA nanotech for biomedical application.
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Zhang, Z., Pan, S., Yin, N. et al. Multiscale analysis of friction behavior at fretting interfaces. Friction 9, 119–131 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-019-0341-z
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