Frictional forces and Amontons' law: From the molecular to the macroscopic scale

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 108, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3410-3425

  Gao, Jianping ^a   Luedtke, W D ^a   Gourdon, D ^b   Ruths, M ^c   Israelachvili, J N ^b   Landman, Uzi ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRICTION MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

AMONTON LAW; ENERGY DISSIPATING PROCESS; FRICTIONAL FORCES; SLIDING VELOCITY;

FRICTION;

EID: 1642381109     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp036362l     Document Type: Article

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