Friction and Wear with Surface Melting at High Sliding Speed and High Contact Pressure (3rd Report,An Analytical Approach to the Condition of the Transition to a Melting Lubrication)

Abstract

An analyzing method to estimate sliding resistance is proposed. In this method, variation of contact pressure caused by plastic deformation of the slider in intrusion process and variation of friction coefficient caused by surface melting are considered. The sliding resistances calculated with this method are agree well with those reported previously. The surface melting phenomena appears in the calculated result too. Based on this method, it allows us to estimate sliding resistance in high sliding speed and high contact pressure conditions without large-scale experiments.