The breakdown of continuum models for mechanical contacts

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7044, 2005, Pages 929-932

  Luan, Binquan ^a   Robbins, Mark O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; FRICTION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ATOMIC DIMENSIONS; CONTACT AREA; CONTINUUM THEORY; MACROSCOPIC ROUGH SURFACES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

PHYSICS;

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FORCE; FRICTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORY;

EID: 21244462347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03700     Document Type: Article

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