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# Contact pressure as a function of the gap coordinate. The value of h 0 = 0 corresponds to the roughness meltdown plane for the specific roughness shown in Figure 3.

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A considerable number of surface texture investigations is based on pin-on-disc tribometers. This work shows that a crucial role in the reproducibility of the results, e.g. Stribeck curves, is played by the geometry of the pin surface. The investigation is based on an elastohydrodynamic model of a pin-on-disc tribometer which is validated with expe...

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... an exact prediction about the extension of this plastically deformed subsurface volume cannot easily be made and subsurface plastic deformation is therefore omitted for the sake of a simple contact model. The precalculated contact pressure in dependence of the gap coordinate is visualized in Figure 7. Bowden and Tabor [26] also give an expression for the shear stress τ c in the contact surface of two metals without a normal load. ...
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... precalculated contact pressure in depence of the gap coordinate is visualized in Figure 7. Bowden and Tabor [24] also give an expression for the shear stress τ c in the contact surface of two metals without a normal load. ...

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