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We study the frictional adhesive contact of a rigid insulating sphere sliding past a multiferroic coating deposed onto a rigid substrate, based on the hybrid element method (HEM). The adhesion behavior is described based on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-04 Yanxin Li , Bo Pan , Yun Tian , Lili Ma , Nicola Menga , Xin Zhang

We derive a novel formulation for the interaction potential between deformable fibers due to short-range fields arising from intermolecular forces. The formulation improves the existing section-section interaction potential law for in-plane…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 A. Borković , M. H. Gfrerer , R. A. Sauer , B. Marussig , T. Q. Bui

When two solids are squeezed together they will in general not make atomic contact everywhere within the nominal (or apparent) contact area. This fact has huge practical implications and must be considered in many technological…

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This paper presents an analytical study about the behavior of arbitrary shaped and sized non-cohesive two-dimensional granular materials. Several mechanical properties and relations are unraveled by connecting micro and macro scales in an…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 Alex X. Jerves , José E. Andrade

Contact dynamics (CD) is a powerful method to solve the dynamics of large systems of colliding rigid bodies. CD can be computationally more efficient than classical penalty-based discrete element methods (DEM) for simulating contact between…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Tyler Olsen , Ken Kamrin

During planar motion, contact surfaces exhibit a coupling between tangential and rotational friction forces. This paper proposes planar friction models grounded in the LuGre model and limit surface theory. First, distributed planar extended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Gabriel Arslan Waltersson , Yiannis Karayiannidis

The damping of built-up structures stems largely from the microscopic dry frictional interactions in the contact interfaces. The accurate prediction of friction damping has been an important scientific aim of the past several decades.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Hendrik D. Linder , Johann Gross , Malte Krack

While there are a number of models that tackle the problem of calculating friction forces on the atomic level, providing a completely parameter-free approach remains a challenge. Here we present a quasi-static model to obtain an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Michael Wolloch , Gregor Feldbauer , Peter Mohn , Josef Redinger , András Vernes

The goal of this paper is to describe the various kinetic equations which arise from scaling limits of interacting particle systems. We provide a formalism which allows us to determine the kinetic equation for a given interaction potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez , Raphael Winter

A preconditioning framework for the coupled problem of frictional contact mechanics and fluid flow in the fracture network is presented. The porous medium is discretized using low-order continuous finite elements, with cell-centered…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Andrea Franceschini , Laura Gazzola , Massimiliano Ferronato

We introduce a numerical method for investigating interfacial flows coupled with frictional solid particles. Our method combines the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to model the dynamics of a two-component fluid and the discrete element…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 Abhinav Naga , Xitong Zhang , Junyu Yang , Halim Kusumaatmaja

We introduce a general differentiable solver for time-dependent deformation problems with contact and friction. Our approach uses a finite element discretization with a high-order time integrator coupled with the recently proposed…

How frictional effects emerge at the microscopic level in particulate materials remains a challenging question, particularly in systems subject to thermal fluctuations due to the transient nature of interparticle contacts. Here, we directly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-12 Berend van der Meer , Taiki Yanagishima , Roel P. A. Dullens

In this paper, we present a principled method to model general planar sliding motion with distributed convex contact patch. The effect of contact patch with indeterminate pressure distribution can be equivalently modeled as the contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jiayin Xie , Nilanjan Chakraborty

Soft lubricated contacts exhibit complex interfacial behaviours governed by the coupled effects of multiscale surface roughness and non-linear fluid-solid interactions. Accurately capturing this interplay across thin-film flows is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-12 Qian Wang , Suhaib Ardah , Tom Reddyhoff , Daniele Dini

We introduce a contact law for the normal force generated between two contacting, elastically anisotropic bodies of arbitrary geometry. The only requirement is that their surfaces be smooth and frictionless. This anisotropic contact law is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-23 Saviz Mowlavi , Ken Kamrin

A homogeneous elastic solid, bounded by a flat surface in its unstressed configuration, undergoes a finite strain when in frictionless contact against a rigid and rectilinear constraint, ending with a rounded or sharp corner, in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-21 Francesco Dal Corso , Marco Amato , Davide Bigoni

Understanding contact between rough surfaces undergoing plastic deformation is crucial in many applications. We test Persson's multiscale contact mechanics theory for elastoplastic solids, assuming a constant penetration hardness. Using a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-07 Andreas Almqvist , Bo N. J. Persson

Brownian motion near soft surfaces is a situation widely encountered in nanoscale and biological physics. However, a complete theoretical description is lacking to date. Here, we theoretically investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Yilin Ye , Yacine Amarouchene , Raphaël Sarfati , David S. Dean , Thomas Salez

We show that application of voltage between two electrically conducting bodies separated by a thin dielectric layer is equivalent to an adhesive contact with an effective separation energy depending quadratically on the applied stress.…

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