The hysteretic part of the friction coefficient for rubber sliding on an ideal rigid, rough surface has been investigated by FE\ntechnique. The FE models were created by using two different FE softwares, ABAQUS and MSC.MARC. The surface roughness\nhas been considered by using two different sine waves having a wavelength of 100 �µm and 11.11 �µm, as well as their superposition.\nParameters of the viscoelastic material models of the rubber were gained, firstly from a fit to the measured storage modulus,\nsecondly from a fit to the measured loss factor master curve of the rubber. The effect of viscoelastic material models, comparing\n10-term and 40-term generalized Maxwell models was also considered together with the temperature effect between -50 and\n150?C. According to the results, both postprocessing methods, namely, the reaction force and the energy-based approach, show\nvery similar coefficients of friction. The 40-term Maxwell model fitted to both the storage modulus and loss factor curve provided\nthe most realistic results. The tendency of the FE results has been explained by semianalytical theory.
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