The first edition of this book was published in 2009 to provide the essentials of
elastoplasticity for students, engineers and scientists in the field of applied mechanics …

The onset of frictional slip has always been somewhat difficult to study due to the fact that
access to the contact area is almost impossible and in most cases only indirect …

A high friction coefficient is first observed as a sliding between bodies commences, which is
called the static friction. Then, the friction coefficient decreases approaching the lowest …

In various fields of engineering, it is important to clarify friction-induced vibration, such as
stick-slip motion, for a wide range of scales from microscopic elements to continental plates …

Frictional interfaces are abundant in natural and engineering systems, and predicting their
behavior still poses challenges of prime scientific and technological importance. At the heart …

The incorporation of the saturation of the tangential contact stress with the increase of the
normal contact stress is required for the analysis of the friction phenomenon of solids and …

The analysis of the wear resistance of polymeric fibres requires a better understanding of
both their abrasive scratch behaviour and their frictional response. These aspects have …

Friction of rubber is known to behave non-linearly, depending on contact pressure and
sliding speed. The surface of a rugby ball made of natural rubber with regular pimples was …

A subloading-friction model is formulated to describe the smooth transient variation from
static friction to kinetic friction, the recovery to static friction after the sliding velocity …

To study how macroscopic friction phenomena originate from microscopic junction laws, we
introduce a general statistical framework describing the collective behavior of a large …