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Experimental and numerical study of the effect of surface patterning on the frictional properties of polymer surfaces
Simone Balestra, Gianluca Costagliola, Amedeo Pegoraro +6
We describe benchmark experiments to evaluate the frictional properties of laser patterned low-density polyethylene as a function of sliding velocity, normal force and humidity. Th…
Predicting damage in aggregates due to the volume increase of the alkali-silica reaction products
Emil R. Gallyamov, Andreas Leemann, Barbara Lothenbach +1
Volume increase between the reactants and the products of alkali silica reaction could reach up to 100%. Taking place inside the aggregates, ASR imposes internal pressure on the su…
Velocity-driven frictional sliding: Coarsening and steady-state pulse trains
Thibault Roch, Efim A. Brener, Jean-Francois Molinari +1
Frictional sliding is an intrinsically complex phenomenon, emerging from the interplay between driving forces, elasto-frictional instabilities, interfacial nonlinearity and dissipa…
Effect of wear particles and roughness on nanoscale friction
Tobias Brink, Enrico Milanese, Jean-François Molinari
Frictional contacts lead to the formation of a surface layer called the third body, consisting of wear particles and structures resulting from their agglomerates. Its behavior and…
Earthquake Nucleation along Faults with Heterogeneous Weakening Rate
Mathias Lebihain, Thibault Roch, Marie Violay +1
The transition from quasi-static slip growth to dynamic rupture propagation constitutes one possible scenario to describe earthquake nucleation. If this transition is rather well u…
Adhesive wear regimes on rough surfaces and interaction of micro-contacts
Son Pham-Ba, Jean-François Molinari
We develop an analytical model of adhesive wear between two unlubricated rough surfaces, forming micro-contacts under normal load. The model is based on an energy balance and a cra…