Analysis of Temperature Rise Induced by Frictional Heat through Real Contact Points

Frictional heat generated during sliding of two surfaces is transferred to their substrates through real contact points. To obtain the distribution of real contact points of a JN1-JN1 contact interface, a thin PET film method, previously developed by the present author, was used. On the basis of this distribution of the real contact points, the temperature inside the JN1, which had the shape of a rectangular prism and was immersed in liquid helium, was calculated by 3-dimensional FEM analysis. Two extreme boundary conditions at the contacting interface were taken into account since it was difficult to determine the reasonable boundary condition. One condition was that the temperature at the contact surface other than the real contact area was kept at a constant value of 4.2K and the other was adiabatic. In the case of the adiabatic boundary condition, the distribution of the real contact area affected the distribution of temperature at depths down to 2mm.