ADVANCES IN STUDIES ON CONTACTS OF ROUGH SURFACES

No surfaces in engineering are absolutely smooth. The surface topography should be considered for its effects in contacts in some special contact problems. The study of contacts of rough surfaces is a young and interdisciplinary field. It mainly involves contact mechanics, electrical and thermal contact conductances, contact sealing, contact stiffness, contact vibration and noise and human joint contact. It is related to a wide range of disciplines and technologies, such as, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics...