Contact area between a viscoelastic solid and a hard, randomly rough, substrate

B N J Persson; O Albohr; C Creton; V Peveri

doi:10.1063/1.1697376

Contact area between a viscoelastic solid and a hard, randomly rough, substrate

J Chem Phys. 2004 May 8;120(18):8779-93. doi: 10.1063/1.1697376.

Authors

B N J Persson¹, O Albohr, C Creton, V Peveri

Affiliation

¹ IFF, FZ-Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany. b.persson@fz-juelich.de

PMID: 15267810
DOI: 10.1063/1.1697376

Abstract

We study the time-dependent contact area as a viscoelastic solid is squeezed against a randomly rough substrate. Using a recently developed contact mechanics theory we study how the contact area depends on time and on the magnification zeta. Numerical results are presented for self-affine fractal surfaces, and applications to tack, rubber friction, and sealing are given.