New approach to elucidating the physical nature of the processes that occur in the friction zone of mates of machine parts

It has been found that during frictional contact in separate local areas of a thin surface layer of parts under significant loads and deformations and high contact temperatures, the material of the tribocontact zone of parts transforms into a special activating unstable state of magma-plasma or triboplasma. General issues in which the nature of the processes of friction and wear of mating parts is clarified are considered at a higher fundamental level with the involvement of nanotribology. A number of processes that accompany interactions of triboconjugations of parts are analyzed: mechanoemission, mechanochemical, gas-discharge, etc., tribochemical reactions, fluxes of high-energy particles: excited molecules, atoms, ions, fast electrons, phonons (sound quanta and quanta of electromagnetic radiation). Regularities of additivity of elastic and magnetic aftereffect in the volumetric parts and surface layers of tribo-interface parts made of ferromagnetic materials and alloys have been revealed. Also, the regularity of the additivity of the diffusion aftereffect in their surface layers has been established. A tribophysical model of self-organization is built on the basis of a carbon-nitrogen cycle of tribochemical reactions that have the content of thermonuclear fusion reactions and which can be considered at the nanoscale. In these reactions, the carbon atom plays the role of a catalyst for the process of fusion of protons with subsequent transformation into a radioactive isotope, which decays into ordinary carbon and helium. It has been established that the mechanism of nuclear fusion reactions in the surface layers of triboconjugation parts is due to the directional movement of dislocations in the crystal structures of materials with the implementation of the proton cycle and the conversion of hydrogen into helium. It has been shown that this makes it possible to change the idea of the mechanocaloric effect, the process of friction and wear, and to substantiate a number of effects and processes from the physical positions of nanotribology. This will allow the creation of competitive tribotechnologies in various industries.