Research Article

Assessment of Thermomechanical Couplings in Tribological Surface Transformations: Application to the Irreversible Near-Surface Solid-Solid Phase Transformations

Figure 1

Heat sources due to the thermoelastic and classical (visco-)plastic processes and the irreversible solid-solid phase transformations (unit: MPa·s−1 or mW·mm−3) at time  s under the previously defined thermomechanical loading conditions [6], where  K,  MPa,  s, and .
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