In this paper, the effect of air relative humidity and capillary force on contact geometry of surfaces based on JKR model by Atomic force microscopy was investigated in order to manipulate nano-particles. With transition from macro to nano-scale, the effect of surface forces becomes more significant in comparison with inertial force. Because contact mechanics models are based on surface energy ...

abstract: application of atomic force microscope as a manipulator for pushing-based positioning of nano-particles has been of considerable interest during recent years. however a detailed modeling of the interaction forces and control on the afm tip is important for prosperous manipulation control, a reliable control of the afm tip position during the afm-based manipulation process is a main is...

The friction and adhesion between elastic bodies are strongly influenced by the roughness of the surfaces in contact. Here we develop a multiscale molecular dynamics approach to contact mechanics, which can be used also when the surfaces have roughness on many different length-scales, e.g., for self affine fractal surfaces. As an illustration we consider the contact between randomly rough surfa...

form, Problem P . Find fu; ; g such that 0 +K1 +K2 + C1v + S(v; ; ) = Q in V 0; Bv + Au + C2 + 4j(v; ; ; v) 3 f in E 0: Here f 2 E 0 and Q 2 V 0 are given by hf; wi = Z T 0 Z f(t)wi(t) dxdt + Z T 0 Z ij (t)wi;j(t) dxdt + Z T 0 Z N fN(t)wi(t)d dt; hQ; i = Z T 0 hq(t); (t)i dt Z T 0 Z 0(t) (t) dxdt Z T 0 Z C hR( (t) R(t)) (t)d dt Z T 0 Z kij ;i(t) ;j(t) dxdt; and 4j(v; ; ; w) denotes the partial ...

The goal of this study was to determine how well a medial meniscal allograft restores the normal contact mechanics of the medial tibial plateau at the time of implantation. We measured maximum pressure, mean pressure, and contact area of the intact human cadaveric knee, the knee after meniscectomy, the knee with the original meniscus removed and reimplanted as an autograft, and the knee with an...