A 3D elastic-plastic rough contact (EPC) solution and code is developed using a modified semi-analytical method. The total surface deflection is induced by the contact pressure and plastic strain. A purely elastic contact field and a residual field arising from the plastic deformation are simulated iteratively to gain the final approximate solution for the elastic-plastic rough contact. Frictionless normal contact between a rigid ball and an elastic-plastic half space with polished, turned, and honed rough surfaces was numerically simulated using the developed EPC code. The distributions of surface pressures, real contact area, total stresses, residual stresses, residual displacements, and plastic strains are obtained through simulation. The effects of surface roughness, wavelength, and plastic hardening behavior upon the calculated results are analyzed.

Volume Subject Area:
Tribology
Topics:
Computer simulation, Surface roughness, Deflection, Deformation, Hardening, Polishing, Pressure, Residual stresses, Simulation, Stress, Wavelength
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