Research Article

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

Figure 5

Thermomechanical loading applied (on the left end of the bar, ). Note that the function (resp. ), which progresses linearly with time, is given by a solid line with  K in time  s (resp. a dashed line with under three different loads  MPa).
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