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A finite element (FE) model combining submodel technique is presented for the adhesive wear in elastic—plastic spherical contact. It consists of a global model, showing the potential location of fracture under combined normal and tangential loading, and a refined mesh submodel covering only the region near the potential fracture. This allows to describe the morphology of wear particle more accurately than that in a previously developed model by the authors. A range of normal loading is studied to show its effect on the shape and volume of wear particles. Two main regimes of mild and severe wear (along with a relatively narrow transition region between them) are found, which show almost linear and power-law dependency of wear rate on normal loading, respectively. Such behavior agrees with published experimental observations. However, the transition region is theoretically predicted here for the first time.
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Haibo ZHANG. He received his Ph.D. degree in March 2019 from Beijing Institute of Technology. Then he joined the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Technion-Israel Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral fellow. In April 2021, he joined the Mechanical Engineering School in Beijing Institute of Technology, as an assistant professor. His research interests focus on friction and wear modeling, coatings, and multi-physics coupling contact.
Izhak ETSION. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1974 from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Since then he was a faculty at the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he is currently a professor emeritus. His research interests are in hydrodynamic lubrication, surface texturing, contact mechanics, nano-tribology, and bio-tribology. He has published over 200 papers on various aspects of tribology and held 15 patents. He is the founder of Surface Technologies Ltd. that developed the laser surface texturing (LST) technology for friction and wear reduction. His honors include fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 1999), fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE, 2001), the STLE 2005 International Award, the ASME 2016 Mayo D. Hersey Award, and the 2021 James Watt International Gold Medal in recognition of outstanding contribution to mechanical engineering.
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Zhang, H., Etsion, I. An advanced efficient model for adhesive wear in elastic—plastic spherical contact. Friction 10, 1276–1284 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0569-2
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