Asymptotic description of fretting wear and fretting fatigue for incomplete contacts

Abstract

Looking at wear of incomplete contacts in partial slip we start from an asymptotic description of the contact tractions at the contact edges. We introduce distributed dislocations along the slip zone to account for the profile reduction due to wear and find the long-term time asymptote where the contact is wholly stuck. The resulting stress field is used to find the crack tip stress intensity factors for short contact edge cracks, which are useful in predicting the crack nucleation threshold.