Relative contact area in metal-polymer joints

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the specification of the parameters of Bartenev-Lavrentiev’s empirical dependence for the relative area of contact with taking into account the mutual influence of asperities. The relative contact area is determined using a discrete roughness model for a wide range of distributions of the peaks of the asperities in the rough layer. It is shown that when determining the relative contact area, the distribution of the asperities in height practically does not affect the final result, since the obtained dependences coincide. This fact allowed us to determine the parameters of engineering dependence, which coincides with the results of theoretical studies.