attempts have been made for the first time to produce a friction material with thermal sensitive modulus by the inclusion of combined plastic/rubber properties of thermoplastic elastomers (tpe) as viscoelastic polymeric materials into the formulation for the purpose of increasing the damping behavior. in order to evaluate the viscoelastic parameters such as loss factor (tan δ) and elastic modul...

The velocity and stress autocorrelation decay in a dissipative particle dynamics ideal fluid model is analyzed in this paper. The autocorrelation functions are calculated at three different friction parameters and three different time steps using the well-known Groot/Warren algorithm and newer algorithms including self-consistent leap-frog, self-consistent velocity Verlet and Shardlow first and...

I summarize laboratory friction experiments on quartz powder sheared at room temperature and humidity. Slide-hold-slide experiments indicate that static friction and related parameters vary systematically with both hold time and loading velocity. The data indicate that healing is closely related to gouge porosity and that static friction and healing are not simple friction parameters, but rathe...

Friction was measured on a single molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanotube and on a single MoS2 nano-onion for the first time. We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) operating in ultra-high vacuum at room temperature. The average coefficient of friction between the AFM tip and MoS2 nanotubes was found considerably below the corresponding values obtained from an air-cleaved MoS2 single crystal or gra...

High cycle fatigue failure of turbine and compressor blades due to resonance in the operating frequency range is one of themain problems in the design of gas turbine engines. To suppress excessive vibrations in the blades and prevent high cycle fatigue, dry friction dampers are used by the enginemanufacturers. However, due to the nonlinear nature of friction contact, analysis of such systems be...

Internal friction, which reflects the "roughness" of the energy landscape, plays an important role for proteins by modulating the dynamics of their folding and other conformational changes. However, the experimental quantification of internal friction and its contribution to folding dynamics has remained challenging. Here we use the combination of single-molecule Förster resonance energy transf...

-A novel dynamic friction experiment using the Kolsky bar concept was developed. The technique is complementary to the plate impact and other macroscopic friction experiments in the sense that sliding velocities and pressures not attainable otherwise can be investigated. The experimental results reported in this article show that the technique provides accurate and repeatable measurement of tim...

The paper presents experimental results of friction parameter identification for two different systems: rotational arms of a direct-drive spherical manipulator and linear slide tables. Parameters of the static part of the LuGre friction model are estimated. Several experiments are reported in which selected friction compensation methods are employed for tracking at low velocities. Two compensat...

Various methods have been presented to improve the performance of buildings against earthquakes. Friction damper device is one of the energy dissipation devices that appropriately absorbs and dissipates the input energy and decreases displacements. In this paper, the possibility of using endurance time method to determine the efficiency index and optimum slip load for these dampers was investig...