%0 Journal Article %T Thermo-Mechanical Investigations of a Tribological Interface %+ Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Structures [Villeurbanne] (LaMCoS) %+ Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil (LMGC) %+ Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Divisés (PMMD) %A Rivière, Jérôme %A Renouf, Mathieu %A Berthier, Yves %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1023-8883 %J Tribology Letters %I Springer Verlag %V 58 %P 48-59 %8 2015-05-10 %D 2015 %R 10.1007/s11249-015-0523-4 %K Discrete element method (DEM) %K Thermal contact conductance (TCC) %K Damage %K Third body %K Continuous equivalent media %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Materials %Z Engineering Sciences [physics]/Mechanics [physics.med-ph]/Mechanical engineering [physics.class-ph]Journal articles %X Numerical methods are essential to understand tribological behaviors since it is difficult to measure directly a closed contact or write representative analytical equations. In this paper, a focus on the complexity of a contact is done with the modeling of thermo-mechanical phenomena in connection with tribological triplet (mechanism, first bodies, third body). Discrete element method is chosen to have a dynamic view of a contact and is interesting to represent both damage of first bodies and cohesion of third ones. Thermo-mechanical models are described for first and third-bodies and are adjusted as a function of continuity of the body. Results regarding damage, rheology and thermal effects are studied as a consequence of cohesion of third body and applied energy by the mechanism (pressure, velocity). Because mechanical and thermal behaviors have a narrow but unclear relationship, a balance between local energy (cohesion of third body) and global energy (applied forces by mechanism) is recommended. Keywords Discrete element method (DEM) Á Thermal contact conductance (TCC) Á Damage Á Third body Á Continuous equivalent media %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-01233087/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-01233087/file/Thermo-Mechanical_Investigations_Riviere_al_2015.pdf %L hal-01233087 %U https://hal.science/hal-01233087 %~ CNRS %~ INSA-LYON %~ LAMCOS %~ LMGC %~ MIPS %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ INSA-GROUPE %~ UDL %~ UM-2015-2021