2 papers
cond-mat.soft2018
Indentation of concave power law profiles with arbitrary exponents
Valentin L. Popov, Markus Heß, Emanuel Willert +1
We study analytically and numerically the process of indentation of cylindrical rigid indenter with concave face in form of a power-law function. In the well-known case of a parabo…
cond-mat.soft2018
Voltage induced friction in a contact of a finger and a touchscreen with a thin dielectric coating
Valentin L. Popov, Markus Hess
We show that application of voltage between two electrically conducting bodies separated by a thin dielectric layer is equivalent to an adhesive contact with an effective separatio…