An assessment of the Greenwood-Williamson and other asperities models with, special reference to electrical conductance

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-17

  Ciavarella, M ^a   Leoci, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; SURFACES;

ASPERITIES MODELS; GREENWOOD-WILLIAMSON (GW) MODEL; LOCAL MAXIMA; MULTISCALE SURFACES; SERIES FRACTAL PROFILE;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

EID: 33645792658     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2125947     Document Type: Article

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