Publications by Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

A parameter-free mechanistic model of the adhesive wear process of rough surfaces in sliding contact

Jean-François Molinari, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Tobias Brink

In order to develop predictive wear laws, relevant material parameters and their influence on the wear rate need to be identified. Despite decades of research, there is no agreement on the mathematical form of wear equations and even the simplest models, s ...

2021

Crack Nucleation in the Adhesive Wear of an Elastic-Plastic Half-Space

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

The detachment of material in an adhesive wear process is driven by a fracture mechanism which is controlled by a critical length-scale. Previous efforts in multi-asperity wear modeling have applied this microscopic process to rough elastic contact. Howeve ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Bridging scales in wear modeling with volume integral methods for elastic-plastic contact

Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

All mechanical systems, naturally occurring or human-produced, are subjected to friction and wear at the interface of solid constituents. Large portions of energy dissipation and loss of material, in every-day life and industrial applications alike, are du ...

EPFL2020

Tamaas: a library for elastic-plastic contact of periodic rough surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Son-Jonathan Pham-Ba, Valentine Ginette Madeleine Rey

Tamaas: a library for elastic-plastic contact of periodic rough surfaces", published in the Journal of Open Source Softwares describes the free and open-source library Tamaas. More than five years in the making, Tamaas is a high performance C++/Python libr ...

2020

A Fourier-accelerated volume integral method for elastoplastic contact

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

The contact of solids with rough surfaces plays a fundamental role in physical phenomena such as friction, wear, sealing, and thermal transfer. However, its simulation is a challenging problem due to surface asperities covering a wide range of length-scale ...

2019

Contact élastoplastique : équations intégrales accélérées par une approche Fourier

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

Une approche par équations intégrales volumiques du problème de contact élastoplastique périodique est présentée. Elle repose sur la formulation des fonctions de Green nécessaires au calcul des opérateurs intégraux directement dans l’espace de Fourier. Cel ...

2019

A mechanistic understanding of the wear coefficient: From single to multiple asperities contact

Jean-François Molinari, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Ramin Aghababaei

Sliding contact between solids leads to material detaching from their surfaces in the form of debris particles, a process known as wear. According to the well-known Archard wear model, the wear volume (i.e. the volume of detached particles) is proportional ...

2018

Adhesive wear mechanisms uncovered by atomistic simulations

Jean-François Molinari, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot, Ramin Aghababaei, Enrico Milanese, Tobias Brink

In this review, we discuss our recent advances in modeling adhesive wear mechanisms using coarse-grained atomistic simulations. In particular, we present how a model pair potential reveals the transition from ductile shearing of an asperity to the formatio ...

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