Friction and solid-solid adhesion on complex metallic alloys

Friction and solid-solid adhesion on complex metallic alloys

The discovery in 1987 of stable quasicrystals in the Al-Cu-Fe system was soon exploited to patent specific coatings that showed reduced friction in ambient air against hard antagonists. Henceforth, it was possible to develop a number of applications, potential or commercially exploited to date, that will be alluded to in this topical review. A deeper understanding of the characteristics of comp...

Model for solid-liquid and solid-solid friction of rough surfaces with adhesion hysteresis.

Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with surface imperfectness, such as deformation, leads to adhesion hysteresis (AH). When an asperity slides upon a substrate, the substrate is subjected to a loading-unloading cycle, and energy is dissipated due to the AH. Another mechanism, whi...

Adhesion and friction in polymer films on solid substrates: conformal sites analysis and corresponding surface measurements.

In this work, we present a statistical mechanical analysis to elucidate the molecular-level factors responsible for the static and dynamic properties of polymer films. This analysis, which we term conformal sites theory, establishes that three dimensionless parameters play important roles in determining differences from bulk behavior for thin polymer films near to surfaces: a microscopic wettin...

Metadislocations in Complex Metallic Alloys

Complex Metallic Alloys (CMAs) represent a large group of crystalline intermetallics comprising some hundreds of known phases in various alloy systems. They are characterized by the presence of icosahedral atom coordination, large lattice constants, and a correspondingly large number of atoms per unit cell, typically ranging between a few tens and some thousand [1]. In recent years, CMAs have a...

Solid Particle Erosion on Different Metallic Materials