Abstract An FDM-REV-DEM interface coupling method was proposed based on the concept
of the representative elementary volume (REV). The coupling method was applied to the …

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab
experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However …

Copper and iron are the major ingredients in friction materials, among which Fe often been
served as friction reinforcement in the past. But in our recent study, the coefficients of friction …

During wear, materials undergo chemical and mechanical changes that lead to the
formation of what are known as 'third bodies'. Tribologists have long understood that third …

Controlling the friction and wear characteristics of candidate materials for brake pads for
high-speed railway trains is a challenge and requires simulative test methods. In this work …

Metal matrix composites are now commonly used as braking pads for the train running over
250 km/h by virtue of a number of desirable properties. To develop a fundamental …

Under the condition of high in-situ stress, the instantaneous excavation disturbs surrounding
rocks, which shows different internal mechanisms on the different scales. At present, there …

In this paper we propose a new Finite Element Modeling (FEM) strategy to simulate fretting
wear profiles, taking account of the presence of a third body layer evolving over time. To …

The third body approach deals with friction as a problem of third body rheology. Using a
multibody meshfree model, we report influence of cohesion on third body rheology and …

The paper aims to investigate the suitability of a discrete element method to simulate the
elastic behavior of 3D heterogeneous continuous media. In the present work, the cohesion …