Greenwood and Williamson Contact Model

04.01.2017
Greenwoods Contact Model

Surface roughness was recognized to play a major role in forming friction and transition from one lubrication regime to another [1]. Greenwood pioneered with first rough contact model in 1966 [2]. Inspired by this milestone work a branch of dry contact models was born. With time, a substantial number of models is constructed to overcome certain assumptions employed in the initially developed theory, however, due to its analytical nature Greenwood’s model is still being used in estimation of friction coefficient and wear [3,4].

Greenwoods Contact Model

The contact between a smooth rigid plane and rough elastic surface is considered as shown in Figure 1. The rough surface is represented as a set of independent asperities with spherical tips of constant radius of curvature β. Hence, for each asperity, Hertz theory is applicable [5]. It was assumed by Greenwood, that the asperities heights varied randomly with a certain probability distribution , for example Gaussian and in that case is represented as:

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where 

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is the standard deviation of the asperity peaks. If the distance between two surfaces is

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, then the probability of the contact for an asperity with height is given by:

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and the number of asperities N is assumed to be large enough to calculate the expected number of contacts according to

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According to Hertz theory (Hertz model), the area of contact for the asperity with height z equals to 

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and therefore the expected total area of contact is

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Similarly, using Hertz theory one can obtain the expected total load:

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where

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.

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and

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are the elastic moduli and Poisson’s ratio of bodies 1 and 2 correspondingly.

Despite the fact that this model is widely accepted and used by the researchers, a large number of algorithms were developed to shorten the list of assumptions. One of such models was developed by Faraon [6]. In his method, instead of using statistical representation of the surface asperities, deterministic approach was used. It means that each asperity has its own radius of curvature

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and height

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. Therefore, for each asperity, the area of contact

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and carried load

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can be obtained using Hertz theory:

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,

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The total load and total area of contact then is simply the sum of local N components:

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References


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  2. [2] Greenwood J, A., Williamson, G.,P.,B. Contact of Nominally Flat Surfaces. 1966;295.
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