This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

When two bodies are in contact, various surface/subsurface damage problems may arise,
which significantly shorten the service lives of functional components. These damage …

In typical metallic contacts, stresses are very high and result in yielding of the material.
Therefore, the study of contacts which include simultaneous elastic and plastic deformation …

We provide an overview of the basic concepts of scaling and dimensional analysis, followed
by a review of some of the recent work on applying these concepts to modeling instrumented …

This work presents a finite element study of elasto-plastic hemispherical contact. The results
are normalized such that they are valid for macro contacts (eg, rolling element bearings) and …

A review is presented of the mechanics of microscale adhesion in microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS). Some governing dimensionless numbers such as Tabor number …

Fatigue of railway wheels and rails under rolling contact and thermal loading—an overview
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A three-dimensional elastic-plastic contact code based on semi-analytical method is
presented and validated. The contact is solved within a Hertz framework. The reciprocal …

High-frequency train-track interaction and mechanisms of wheel/rail wear that is non-uniform
in magnitude around/along the running surface are surveyed. Causes, consequences and …

A general electrical contact resistance ECR theory for conductive rough surfaces was
derived from first principles. The analysis is based on fractal geometry for the surface …