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Sliding Objects with Random Friction

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-25 v1

Abstract

We study the motion of elastic networks driven over a random substrate. Our model which includes local friction forces leads to complex dynamical behavior. We find a transition to a sliding state which belongs to a new universality class. The phase diagram comprises of a pinned state, a stick-slip motion phase, and a free motion phase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9904148,
  title  = {Sliding Objects with Random Friction},
  author = {Itzhak Webman and Jose Luis Gruver and Shlomo Havlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9904148},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

proceedings of Conference "Percolation and Disordered Systems: *Theory and Applications*", Giessen (Germany) 1998, see http://ory.ph.biu.ac.il/PERCOLATION98/ , 12 pages, 5 figures, in press, will be published in Physica A