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 …

This paper summarizes the submissions to a recently announced contact-mechanics
modeling challenge. The task was to solve a typical, albeit mathematically fully defined …

Micro-textures applied on rubbing surfaces have gained tremendous attention in the
tribological community. Numerous studies deal with the deduction and testing of beneficial …

Classical laws of friction suggest that friction force is proportional to the normal load and
independent of the nominal contact area. As a great improvement in this subject, it is now …

We study the sliding contact of viscoelastic layers on rigid rough profiles, with two different
contact configurations: constrained on the upper boundary, and uniformly loaded on the top …

Engineering wear models are generally empirical and lack connections to the physical
processes of debris generation at the nanoscale to microscale. Here, we thus analyze wear …

The current work considers the multi-scale nature of roughness in a new model that predicts
the static friction coefficient. This work is based upon a previous rough surface contact …

The study of contact is an engineering pursuit that spans multiple disciplines and scales.
Structural dynamics, as well as aspects of nonlinear dynamics and vibrations, is concerned …

It is now commonly accepted that real contact area rises linearly with increasing normal load
for the contact of rough solids. However, the coefficient of proportionality is distinct in various …

The fundamental problem of adhesion in the presence of surface roughness and its effect on
the prediction of friction has been a hot topic for decades in numerous areas of science and …