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Fretting wear is a common cause of failure of an electrical contact (EC). In this study, we analyzed in detail the failure of EC induced especially by sliding using the representative electrical terminals. Furthermore, combining the friction energy dissipation theory, we proposed a prediction model to evaluate the electrical connector endurance (ECE) based on the contact stress and geometrical changes during the wear process obtained from a numerical model. The study helps establish that the friction energy dissipation theory is a powerful tool to analyze a contact failure due to wear. The proposed model proves to be effective in predicting the ECE for all considered cases such as micro-slip amplitude, contact force, overturning angle, superficial layer thickness, and friction/wear coefficients.
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We would like to thank for the financial support of this work by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant Numbers 51775406 and 51405371, Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment (Grant No. GZ1612), 111 Project B14042, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. JB180412), Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province of China (Grant No. 2017JM5035), and Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province of China (Grant No. 2016GXNSFBA380230).
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Xiangjun JIANG. He received his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in mechanical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2007 and 2013 respectively. He joined the Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structural Design at Xidian University from 2015. He is a lecturer of the laboratory. His research areas cover the tribology of electrical connector and wear simulation.
Fengqun PAN. She received her master’s degree in chemical and mechanical engineering in 2012 from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China. After then, she was a Ph.D student of mechatronics engineering in the Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structural Design at Xidian University. Her research interest is wear analysis by finite element method.
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Jiang, X., Pan, F., Shao, G. et al. Prediction of electrical contact endurance subject to micro-slip wear using friction energy dissipation approach. Friction 7, 537–550 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-018-0230-x
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