Wear resistance of coating materials under the frictional heating conditions

Abstract

The problem of the wear of an elastic coating due to a rigid body sliding over the coating surface and heating due to contact friction has been considered. The solution of the quasi-static problem has been constructed in the form of a series over eigenvalues. The area of unstable solutions of the problem, where the thermoelastic instability of a sliding contact takes place, has been determined in the dimensionless parameter space. The wear resistance of a coating has been studied for different kinds of materials depending on the following parameters: the relative sliding velocity of contact surfaces, the mode of the contact interaction of the friction surfaces, the coating thickness, etc. taking into account the temperature and stresses developing at the contact interface.