On Plowing Frictional Behavior during Scratch Testing: A Comparison between Experimental and Theoretical/Numerical Results

• Published in: Crystals (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 33
• Main Author: Larsson, Per-Lennart
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Aluminum; Contact; Friction; frictional behavior; Indentation; Investigations; mechanical analysis; Nondestructive testing; Plowing; plowing friction; polymeric materials; scratch testing; Scratch tests; Scratching; Strain hardening; Tribology

Scratch testing is a contact mechanics based nondestructive testing method that, if correctly evaluated, can give a lot of information about the material and tribological behavior of a material. In contrast to the situation with another contact-based method, indentation testing, wear characteristics...