Developing an artificial fingertip with human friction properties

Tribology International

Volumn 42, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1575-1581

  Shao, Fei ^a   Childs, Tom H C ^a   Henson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial fingertip; Finite element (FE) model; Friction

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; ARTIFICIAL FINGERTIP; FINGER PRINT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FRICTION CHARACTERISTICS; FRICTION PROPERTIES; HUMAN FEELINGS; VIRTUAL MODELS; VISCO-ELASTIC;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SILICONES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRIBOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FRICTION;

EID: 72049120422     PISSN: 0301679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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