Friction at the nanoscale has revealed a wealth of behaviours that depart strongly from the long-standing macroscopic laws of Amontons-Coulomb. Here, by using a 'Christmas cracker'-type of system in which a multiwalled nanotube is torn apart between a quartz-tuning-fork-based atomic force microscope (TF-AFM) and a nanomanipulator, we compare the mechanical response of multiwalled carbon nanotub...

one of the great challenges in the processing of materials using equal channel angular pressing (ecap) is the high forming forces required to produce large shear deformation in the material. researchers show that the friction forces between the die and the sample constitute a great part of the total forming forces. recently, ultrasonic vibrations are successfully implemented into the ecap proce...

Our contribution deals with contact problems of linear elasticity with the Coulomb friction in two space dimensions. The finite element approximation leads to an algebraic problem whose projective primaldual formulation is given as an equation described by a piecewise differentiable function. The solution can be computed iteratively by the semi-smooth Newton method [1]. However, there are known...

The grand piano action has been developped empirically and provides a remarkably accurate control of the hammer velocity and the impact time [1]. The numerical simulation of the action is necessary to improve numerical keyboards and to better understand haptic controllability. Following previous efforts [2, 3], we propose a simulation based on an explicit model and a solver of non-smooth dynami...

Sliding frictional interfaces at a range of length scales are observed to generate travelling waves; these are considered relevant, for example, to both earthquake ground surface movements and the performance of mechanical brakes and dampers. We propose an explanation of the origins of these waves through the study of an idealized mechanical model: a thin elastic plate subject to uniform shear ...

The object-oriented modeling language Dymola allows the physical modeling of large interconnected systems based on model components from diierent engineering domains. It generates symbolic code for diierent target simulators. In this paper, a Dymola class library for the eecient generation of the equations of motion for multibody systems is presented. The library is based on an O(n) algorithm w...

We present a new method of neural friction compensa tion in manipulator control especially during dynamic tasks with de ned contact to external environment Such manipulator movements involve internal joint friction and external friction between tool and environment The suggested method compensates friction caused dis turbances by means of neural networks Based on a minimal friction model Lyapun...