A Kinetic Model for Tribological Surface Transformations Occuring on the Railroads: Irreversible Near-Surface Metallurgical Transformations
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(a) 1D problem of TSTs: a bar subjected to a thermomechanical loading (where ). (b) Boundary conditions: the loading function (resp., ) is represented in solid lines with at time (resp., dashed lines, with ); At the point , the temperature and the displacement are and , respectively.