Abstract: As the size of contacting and sliding tribosystems decrease, intermolecular or adhesive forces become significant partly due to nanometer size surface roughness. The presence of adhesion has a ...

Abstract: As the areal density of magnetic disk storage continues to increase and head-disk spacing decreases, contact between the recording slider and the rotating media becomes imminent. In order to ...

Abstract: Modeling dynamic or kinetic friction for realistic engineering surfaces continues to be a challenge, partly due to the coupling between system dynamics and interfacial forces. In this paper, a ...

Abstract: The statistical approach of describing rough surfaces is extended to include the contact of two rough surfaces in which their distribution of asperity heights can either be symmetric or asymmetric, ...

Abstract: Modeling of contact interfaces that inherently include roughness such as joints, clamping devices, and robotic contacts, is very important in many engineering applications. Accurate modeling of ...

Abstract: The normal dynamic model of the sliding system developed in Part I of this paper is combined with a friction model, obtained separately from the same apparatus, to provide estimates of the ...

Abstract: The instantaneous normal motion between bodies in a sliding contact is an important variable in determining dynamic friction under unsteady sliding conditions. In order to model friction under ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional dynamic friction models at a lubricated line contact, operating in boundary and mixed lubrication regimes, are developed. The friction coefficient is shown to be a function of ...