We present and analyze theoretical approaches to simulation of temperature flashes. A developed mathematical model enables us to calculate the maximum temperature of a friction surface. A new criterion for choice of the critical temperature of wear of a single microasperity is physically grounded.Experimental data on friction at macro-and microlevels are sometimes mutually contradictory, since friction is a dynamical totality of various processes : physical, mechanical, chemical, etc. ones [1-3]. In many cases, measurements at the microlevel are very difficult to perform and sometimes impossible. For example, the distribution and migration of real contact spots along the nominal friction surface are unknown [4,5]. In view of both the very small sizes of those spots and the almost instantaneous time of their existence in the range 10 -3-10 -6 sec, researchers do not carry out experiments for determination of temperature flashes [5] on an actual contact spot. Therefore, it is theoretical approaches that take a special place in tribology.One of the most important directions of the development of tribology is thermophysics and the heat dynamics of friction and wear. In this field, in our opinion, the most profound development and comprehensive analysis were carded out by Chichinadze and his followers [ 1,[5][6][7][8]. They considered three kinds of temperatures: contact, bulk, and flash temperatures [5]. Contact temperature is broadly used for various estimates of the behavior of a friction process, whereas the need to know the distribution of bulk temperature is, in the first place, connected with the specific character of the work of brakes [5][6][7].Study of so-called temperature flashes and, in particular, determination of their absolute value [1, 5] form a separate subsection of the heat dynamics of friction. One of the founders of the concept of temperature flashes, Blok [9], believed that they arise as a result of breakage of molecular bonds on actual contact spots and exceed surface temperatures. Such flashes determine the maximum temperature of contact points of microasperities on the surfaces of fricting bodies. Since it is impossible to experimentally estimate migration and the distribution of contact spots, their temperature can be found only theoretically. Below, we consider the existing approaches to the simulation of temperature flashes.
Chichinadze ModelThe maximum temperature on an actual contact spot is represented as a sum [1,5] Tma x = T 1 + T 2, where T 1 is the integral average temperature of the nominal or contour surface of friction which appears due to a heat flow uniformly distributed along it, and T 2 is the temperature flash giving the extra temperature with respect to T I on the actual contact spot.Consider a scheme of the motion of a microasperity l along a smooth half space 2. We assume that the average contact spot is so small that the surface along which it moves is infinite. Moreover, we assume that the contact spot is formed as a result of the interaction between a single microasper...