About Joint Deformations of Asperities and the Destruction of Rough Surfaces During Friction

The mechanics of the deformations and the destruction of the asperities of rough surfaces has been considered, taking into account the mutual influence of the elastic constants of the materials participating in the friction couple.

The case when the destruction is taking place inside of the contact layer is assumed to have the highest probability. The tight bear of the peaks of one body against the valleys of the other and the adhesion phenomena are leading to a mutual deformation of the prevailing number of asperities of both surfaces. This allows one to consider the contact layer as a composite body consisting of two solid phases and voids.

It has been shown that such an approach does not exclude the possibility of shearing off only the soft material of the couple.

For the asperities subject to bending deformations, the mutual influence of the elastic constants is conditioned by the mutual angle of rotation of the cross sections.

In this case consideration of the tangential stresses in the destruction of the short bars (asperities) is essential.