Adhesive contact analysis for anisotropic materials considering surface stress and surface elasticity

Surface instability in finite anisotropic elasticity under initial stress

The writer’s theory of surface instability of au elastic body under initial stress in finite strain is extended to anisotropic elasticity. The general characteristic equation for surface instability is derived. In addition, the surface deflexion under a normal load is evaluated for the subcritical case of initial stress. The analysis includes the case in which gravity is taken into account. It ...

Surface separation and contact resistance considering sinusoidal elastic–plastic multi-scale rough surface contact

The current work considers the multi-scale nature of surface roughness in a new model that predicts the real area of contact and surface separation as functions of load. This work is based upon a previous rough surfacemulti-scale contactmodelwhichused stackedelastic–plastic spheres tomodel themultiple scales of roughness. Instead, this work uses stacked 3D sinusoids to represent the asperities ...

Surface stress, surface elasticity, and the size effect in surface segregation.

Influence of adhesive rough surface contact on microswitches

Stiction is a major failure mode in microelectromechanical systems MEMS . Undesirable stiction, which results from contact between surfaces, threatens the reliability of MEMS severely as it breaks the actuation function of MEMS switches, for example. Although it may be possible to avoid stiction by increasing restoring forces using high spring constants, it follows that the actuation voltage ha...

Role of Surface Roughness in Hysteresis during Adhesive Elastic Contact.

In experiments that involve contact with adhesion between two surfaces, as found in atomic force microscopy or nanoindentation, two distinct contact force (P) vs. indentation-depth (h) curves are often measured depending on whether the indenter moves towards or away from the sample. The origin of this hysteresis is not well understood and is often attributed to moisture, plasticity or viscoelas...