STICK-SLIP ACOUSTICS

Stabilizing stick-slip friction.

Even the most regular stick-slip frictional sliding is always stochastic, with irregularity in both the intervals between slip events and the sizes of the associated stress drops. Applying small-amplitude oscillations to the shear force, we show, experimentally and theoretically, that the stick-slip periods synchronize. We further show that this phase locking is related to the inhibition of slo...

Flatness and stick-slip stabilization

The origin of this report lies in the very interesting discussions with Chal-lamel of the CGES at Ecole des Mines de Paris and with Hugues Mounier of Ecole des Mines de Nantes.

How to distinguish between stick-slip and pure slip oscillations

Numerical simulations are performed for the stick-slip motion in the BurridgeKnopoff model of one block. Calculated amplitude increases with the driving velocity. We argue that this effect can be a criterion to distinguish between the stick-slip and pure slip oscillations. PACS : 62.20.Qp, 05.45.-a, 02.60.-x

Fracture and friction: Stick-slip motion.

We discuss the stick-slip motion of an elastic block sliding along a rigid substrate. We argue that for a given external shear stress this system shows a discontinuous nonequilibrium transition from a uniform stick state to uniform sliding at some critical stress which is nothing but the Griffith threshold for crack propagation. An inhomogeneous mode of sliding occurs when the driving velocity ...

Dynamic scaling in stick-slip friction