Dry sliding contact between rough surfaces at the atomistic scale

Tribology Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-285

  Spijker, Peter ^a   Anciaux, Guillaume ^a   Molinari, Jean François ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Molecular simulation; Nanotribology; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SCALE; ATOMISTIC LEVELS; ATOMISTIC SCALE; BREAK DOWN; CONTINUUM MODEL; DEFORMABLE SURFACES; DRY SLIDING CONTACT; FRICTIONAL FORCES; INDENTORS; LAWS OF FRICTION; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; MACRO SCALE; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; NORMAL LOADS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; REAL AREA OF CONTACT; REAL CONTACT AREA; RIGID SUBSTRATES; ROUGH SURFACES; SLIDING SPEED; SMALL SCALE; SURFACE FLATTENING;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTRIBOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRIBOLOGY;

FRICTION;

EID: 84867060955     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-011-9846-y     Document Type: Article

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