Ratchet device with broken friction symmetry

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 2601-2603

  Nordén, Bengt ^a   Zolotaryuk, Yaroslav ^b   Christiansen, Peter L ^b   Zolotaryuk, Alexander V ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROKEN SYMMETRY; DRY FRICTION; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; EXTERNAL FORCING; RATCHET DEVICES; RATCHET MECHANISMS; ROTARY MOTIONS; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; UNIDIRECTIONAL ROTATION;

FRICTION;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 79955999616     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1468900     Document Type: Article

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