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

Figure 3

Heat source due to the thermoelastic processes alone (unit: MPa·s⁻¹ or mW·mm⁻³) at time 𝑡=10 s under the previously defined thermomechanical loading conditions [6], where 𝑇^𝑧_𝑖=1000 K, 𝜔=900 MPa, 𝜂=10³ s, and 𝜅=10².