How Thermal Fluctuations Affect Hard-Wall Repulsion and Thereby Hertzian Contact Mechanics
Contact problems as they occur in tribology and colloid science are often solved with the assumption of hard-wall and hard-disk repulsion between locally smooth surfaces. This approximation is certainly meaningful at sufficiently coarse scales. However, at small scales, thermal fluctuations can beco...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmech.2019.00067/full |