National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50475146);Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of Ministry of Education,China (No.20030699035);Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province,China (No.2004E_225,No.2005E_226);Northwestern Polytechnical University Foundation for Fundamental Research (NPU-FFR-20060500W018101)
A thermal elasto-plastic asperity contact model is investigated, which takes into account the steady-state heat transfer and the asperity distortion due to thermal elasto-plastic deformations. A hard coating and a sof...