The nonlinear nature of friction

Michael Urbakh (), Joseph Klafter, Delphine Gourdon and Jacob Israelachvili
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Michael Urbakh: Tel-Aviv University
Joseph Klafter: Tel-Aviv University
Delphine Gourdon: University of California at Santa Barbara
Jacob Israelachvili: University of California at Santa Barbara

Nature, 2004, vol. 430, issue 6999, 525-528

Abstract: Abstract Tribology is the study of adhesion, friction, lubrication and wear of surfaces in relative motion. It remains as important today as it was in ancient times, arising in the fields of physics, chemistry, geology, biology and engineering. The more we learn about tribology the more complex it appears. Nevertheless, recent experiments coupled to theoretical modelling have made great advances in unifying apparently diverse phenomena and revealed many subtle and often non-intuitive aspects of matter in motion, which stem from the nonlinear nature of the problem.

Date: 2004
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