Abstract: Hard coatings are more and more used to improve the mechanical and tribological behavior of surfaces. Thermomechanical cracking can occur in these coatings when they slide under heavy loads. ...

Abstract: To study the thermoelastic behavior of coatings a two-dimensional model of a finite thickness layered medium submitted to a moving heat flux was presented in a previous paper (Leroy, Floquet, ...

Abstract: The relationship between contact temperature, friction coefficient, and wear rate was studied here for the case of dry sliding between pin and flat in small amplitude oscillatory motion. In the ...