Friction on a microstructured elastomer surface

Tribology Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-15

  Brörmann, Katrin ^a   Barel, Itay ^b   Urbakh, Michael ^b   Bennewitz, Roland ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elastomers; Optical microscopy; Static friction; Stick slip; Stress analysis; Unlubricated friction

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER SURFACE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOR; SPRING-BLOCK MODEL; STATIC FRICTION; STICK-SLIP OSCILLATION; STRESS GRADIENT; UNLUBRICATED FRICTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOMERS; EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SILICONES; SLIP FORMING; STICK-SLIP; STICTION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 84875213368     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-012-0044-3     Document Type: Article

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