Coefficients of restitution in normal adhesive impact between smooth and rough elastic bodies

Authors

  • Valentin Popov Technische Universität Berlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31181/rme200101103p

Keywords:

Adhesion, Hysteresis, Energy dissipation, JKR theory, Rolling friction.

Abstract

In 1975, Fuller and Tabor have shown that roughness can destroy macroscopic adhesion. This means that in spite of the presence of adhesion at the microscopic scale, the macrosopic force of adhesion vanishes. The mechanism of vanishing macroscopic adhesion is very simple: during approach of elastic bodies, asperities are elastically deformed so strongly that after unloading they destroy the microscopic adhesive junctions. However, both in the moment of formation of microscopic adhesive junctions in the loading phase and their destruction during unloading, mechanical energy disappears. This means that the microscopic adhesion makes the contact dissipative even if there is no macroscopic force of adhesion. In particular, the force-distance dependency during indentation and pull-off do not coincide with each other showing some "adhesive hysteresis". When a ball rolls on such rough surface, there will be a final energy dissipation due to formation of a new contact at the frontline of the contact and its destruction at the rear part. Thus, microscopic adhesion will lead to appearance of rolling friction in an apparently non-adhesive contact. In the present paper, we calculate the approach and pull-off dependencies of force on distance, the dissipated energy in one loading-unloading cycle and estimate the force of rolling friction due to microscopic adhesion.

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Published

2020-11-10

How to Cite

Popov, V. (2020). Coefficients of restitution in normal adhesive impact between smooth and rough elastic bodies. Reports in Mechanical Engineering, 1(1), 103–109. https://doi.org/10.31181/rme200101103p