The nonlinear nature of friction

Michael Urbakh; Joseph Klafter; Delphine Gourdon; Jacob Israelachvill

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The nonlinear nature of friction

Michael Urbakh^*, Joseph Klafter, Delphine Gourdon, Jacob Israelachvill

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University of California

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	525-528
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature
Volume	430
Issue number	6999
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02750
State	Published - 29 Jul 2004

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