Multi-scale approach for frictional contact of elastomers on rough rigid surfaces

authored by: Peter Wriggers, Jana Reinelt
Abstract: Frictional phenomena can be observed in almost every engineering problem and application. An interesting application is related to the frictional behaviour of elastomers which often undergo finite deformations due to loading and material. In contrast to many surface combinations, where the frictional behaviour depends mostly on the nature of the contact surfaces, rubber friction results for the most part from internal energy dissipation. Therefore, rubber friction can be considered as a process inside the bulk of the material, which implies a large dependency on the used material characteristics but of course also on the surface characteristic. Both lead to energy dissipation in the bulk. In order to describe these phenomena which actually occur at different length scales, a multi-scale approach is introduced which applies the Finite Element Method as the numerical simulation tool.
Organisation(s): Institute of Continuum Mechanics
Type: Article
Journal: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Volume: 198
Pages: 1996-2008
No. of pages: 13
ISSN: 0045-7825
Publication date: 08.01.2009
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy(all), Computer Science Applications
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2008.12.021 (Access: Unknown)
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BibTeX

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title = "Multi-scale approach for frictional contact of elastomers on rough rigid surfaces",
abstract = "Frictional phenomena can be observed in almost every engineering problem and application. An interesting application is related to the frictional behaviour of elastomers which often undergo finite deformations due to loading and material. In contrast to many surface combinations, where the frictional behaviour depends mostly on the nature of the contact surfaces, rubber friction results for the most part from internal energy dissipation. Therefore, rubber friction can be considered as a process inside the bulk of the material, which implies a large dependency on the used material characteristics but of course also on the surface characteristic. Both lead to energy dissipation in the bulk. In order to describe these phenomena which actually occur at different length scales, a multi-scale approach is introduced which applies the Finite Element Method as the numerical simulation tool.",
keywords = "Contact, Finite Element Method, Rubber, Viscoelasticity",
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