Sealing is at the origin of rubber slipping on wet roads

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 882-885

  Persson, B N J ^a   Tartaglino, U ^a,b,c   Albohr, O ^d   Tosatti, E ^b,c,e  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^d Pirelli Deutschland AG   (Germany)

^e ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADHESIVES; ASPHALT; DEFORMATION; FRICTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MONOLAYERS; ROADS AND STREETS; RUBBER; SEALING (CLOSING); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TIRES; VISCOELASTICITY;

DEWETTING; FRICTION FORCES; RUBBER SKIDDING; SURFACE ADHESION;

SKIDDING;

ASPHALT; HYDROCARBON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; FRICTION; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VISCOSITY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FRICTION; HARDNESS; HYDROCARBONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY; WATER;

EID: 10044227438     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1255     Document Type: Article

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