Theory of viscoelastic adhesion and friction
arXiv:2208.08178 · doi:10.1016/j.eml.2022.101877
Abstract
We present a novel theory of the adhesive contact of linear viscoelastic materials against rigid substrates moving at constant velocity. Despite the non-conservative behavior of the system, the closure equation of the contact problem can be rigorously formulated in the form of a local energy balance. In the case of adhesiveless contacts, this is equivalent to enforce the stationarity of the total energy stored into the viscoelastic material. However, in the presence of interfacial adhesion, the appearance of non-conservative terms leads to different values of the energy release rates G1 and G2 at the contact trailing and leading edges, respectively. Specifically, the present theory predicts a non-monotonic trend of G1 and G2 as function of the indenter velocity, as well as a very significant enhancement of hysteretic friction due to the coupling between adhesion and viscoelasticity, compared to the adhesiveless case. Both predictions are in very good agreement with existing experimental data.
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