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Main Authors: Frérot, Lucas, Pastewka, Lars
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13060
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author Frérot, Lucas
Pastewka, Lars
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Pastewka, Lars
contents Surface roughness emerges naturally during mechanical removal of material, fracture, chemical deposition, plastic deformation, indentation, and other processes. Here, we use continuum simulations to show how roughness which is neither Gaussian nor self-affine emerges from repeated elastic-plastic contact of rough and rigid surfaces on a flat elastic-plastic substrate. Roughness profiles change with each contact cycle, but appear to approach a steady-state long before the substrate stops deforming plastically and has hence "shaken-down" elastically. We propose a simple dynamic collapse for the emerging power-spectral density, which shows that the multi-scale nature of the roughness is encoded in the first few indentations. In contrast to macroscopic roughness parameters, roughness at small scales and the skewness of the height distribution of the resulting roughness do not show a steady-state, with the latter vanishing asymptotically with contact cycle.
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spellingShingle Elastic shakedown and roughness evolution in repeated elastic-plastic contact
Frérot, Lucas
Pastewka, Lars
Soft Condensed Matter
Surface roughness emerges naturally during mechanical removal of material, fracture, chemical deposition, plastic deformation, indentation, and other processes. Here, we use continuum simulations to show how roughness which is neither Gaussian nor self-affine emerges from repeated elastic-plastic contact of rough and rigid surfaces on a flat elastic-plastic substrate. Roughness profiles change with each contact cycle, but appear to approach a steady-state long before the substrate stops deforming plastically and has hence "shaken-down" elastically. We propose a simple dynamic collapse for the emerging power-spectral density, which shows that the multi-scale nature of the roughness is encoded in the first few indentations. In contrast to macroscopic roughness parameters, roughness at small scales and the skewness of the height distribution of the resulting roughness do not show a steady-state, with the latter vanishing asymptotically with contact cycle.
title Elastic shakedown and roughness evolution in repeated elastic-plastic contact
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13060