K finnie for steel?

Submitted by franciscohgt on Wed, 08/06/2014 - 00:10

Hi

I was unable to find in the literature the constant "K finnie" for steel, someone can tell me?

regards

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ckloss | Mon, 08/25/2014 - 22:44

Hi,

that's very tricky to answer. It's also always the property of a pairing, e.g. steel-steel or steel-coal etc; It's also quite specific and varies a lot from steel to steel.
WHen we used this model in the past, we had collaborations with tribologists who did calibration experiments for us

Christoph