Nano-scale contact model for microfiber tip attachment, detachment and friction

2008 Proceedings of the STLE/ASME International Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-85

  Teodorescu, Mircea ^a   Rahnejat, Homer ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT MODELS; LOCALIZED CONTACTS; MICRO-FIBER; NANO SCALE; PRELOADS; PULL-OFF FORCES;

SYNTHETIC FIBERS;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 70349884295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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