Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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614495 | Tribology International | 2015 | 15 Pages |
•New model is presented for contact of rough multi-layered surfaces.•Model predicts contact pressures, real contact areas and subsurface stress fields.•Surfaces are treated as rough elastic half-spaces coated with any number of layers.•All influence coefficients are expressed in closed-form using Fourier transforms.•Results show how layer properties can be selected to improve coating performance.
This paper presents a new model for analysis of non-conformal rough surface contacts where one or both of the contacting bodies are coated with a multilayered coating. The model considers elastic contact of arbitrary geometry with real measured roughnesses and both normal and tangential surface loads. It predicts contact pressure distribution, surface deformations and full subsurface stress field. As such, the model offers an optimisation tool for analysis and development of multilayered coatings. Influence coefficients approach is utilised to obtain contact pressures and subsurface stresses while the contact solver is based on a standard conjugate gradient method. To improve model efficiency, a semi-analytical approach is devised, where the influence coefficients for displacements and stresses are expressed explicitly by solving the fundamental equations in the frequency domain. Fast Fourier Transforms in conjunction with discrete convolution are then utilised to provide the solution in spatial domain. Selected results are presented to first validate the model and then illustrate the potential improvements that can be achieved in the design of multilayered coatings through application of the model.