Friction is a pervasive nonlinearity in mechanical systems, arising at interfaces from the microscale asperities of surfaces and manifesting in macroscopic performance degradation, wear and control ...

This study investigates the fundamental frictional behavior of granules through experimental analysis under two direct-shear testing scenarios: grains-assembly shearing and grains-to-surface shearing ...

An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a ...