...Arman Ahmadi; Farshid Sadeghi In this investigation, a finite element (FE) model was developed to study the third body effects on the fretting wear of Hertzian contacts in the partial slip regime. An FE three-dimensional Hertzian point contact model operating in the presence of spherical third...

... how the heat is generated and how it is distributed in the two components in contact during transient state. Contrary to classical approaches assuming equal temperature at the contact surfaces, a contact interface is introduced in the model as a thin layer of third body with uniform volumic heat...

... 2004 07 02 2005 granular materials wear Wear Simulation Discrete Element Method Wear Law Third Body Understanding the wear process is of permanent interest since wear is a genuine industrial problem. Unfortunately, as explained by Meng et al. in 1 , “the available...