In typical metallic contacts, stresses are very high and result in yielding of the material.
Therefore, the study of contacts which include simultaneous elastic and plastic deformation …

Recent advancements in biomedical, transportation and energy sectors have resulted in
high demands for advanced materials with superior resistance to creep deformations. In …

This study develops a new fractal contact model to evaluate contact status on rough
surfaces. Specifically, the three-dimensional Weierstrass-Mandelbrot function is used to …

Recent direct implementation of asperity theories is reinterpreted here to formulate an
improved version of the Greenwood and Williamson (GW) theory with the inclusion of …

A general contact stiffness model is proposed in this paper to study the contacts between
rough surfaces of machined plane joints. The proposed model uses fractal geometry for …

The paper suggests a revision to the asperities plastic to elastic mode transition in the elastic–
plastic contact model of fractal rough surfaces, offered by Majumdar and Bushan [A …

In this work, a series of novel FeCrAlW x (x= 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1) high entropy alloys (HEAs)
coating were successfully prepared using laser cladding technology to simultaneously …

The area and pressure distribution in elastic contacts between frictionless, nonadhesive
surfaces is studied as a function of load and surface geometry using finite element …

This study suggested a revision to the contact model of a fractal rough surface, by extending
the modified asperity contact model developed by Morag and Etsion, into a complete contact …

We present a newly developed approach for the calculation of interfacial stiffness and
contact area evolution between two rough bodies exhibiting self-affine surface structures …