TY - JOUR AU - Persson, Bo TI - Surface Roughness-Induced Stress Concentration JO - Tribology letters VL - 71 IS - 2 SN - 1023-8883 CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Science Business Media B.V. M1 - FZJ-2023-03431 SP - 66 PY - 2023 AB - When a body is exposed to external forces large local stresses may occur at the surface because of surface roughness. Surface stress concentration is important for many application and in particular for fatigue due to pulsating external forces. For randomly rough surfaces, I calculate the probability distribution of surface stress in response to a uniform external tensile stress with the displacement vector field parallel to the rough surface. I present numerical simulation results for the stress distribution σ(x,y) and show that in a typical case the maximum local tensile stress may be ∼10 times bigger than the applied stress. I discuss the role of the stress concentration on plastic deformation and surface crack generation and propagation. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000981277200001 DO - DOI:10.1007/s11249-023-01741-4 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1014741 ER -