In 2nd report, the asperities covering the anisotropic surfaces were assumed to be ellipsoidal at least near their summits. Then the method was derived with which those ellipsoidal asperities were replaced by spherical asperities which were equivalent to the original ones. In this paper, the errors of the number of contact spots
nc, the real contact area
Ar and the load
W, which are caused by the above mentioned replacing, are theoretically analysed.
The main results obtained are as follows:
(1) In the case of contact between flat and rough surfaces, as the ratios
k0 of the minor axes to the major ones of ellipsoidal asperities are smaller, those errors of
Ar and
W are greater. However, the errors of
nc are always zero independently of
k0.
(2) In the case of contact between two rough surfaces, the relations between
k0 and errors of
Ar,
W and
nc are very similar to those of (1). However, those errors are almost independent of the approach between each asperity of contacting surfaces and the difference in size of those asperities.
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