Bin Jaber, S., Hamilton, A., Xu, Y. , Kartal, M. E., Gadegaard, N. and Mulvihill, D. M. (2021) Friction of flat and micropatterned interfaces with nanoscale roughness. Tribology International, 153, 106563. (doi: 10.1016/j.triboint.2020.106563)
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Abstract
The dry friction of surfaces with nanoscale roughness and the possibility of using micropatterning to tailor friction by manipulating contact area is investigated. Square wave patterns produced on samples from silicon wafers (and their unstructured equivalent) were slid against unstructured silicon counter surfaces. The width of the square wave features was adjusted to vary the apparent feature contact area. The existence of nanoscale roughness was sufficient to ensure Amontons’ first law (F = μP) on both structured & unstructured samples. Somewhat counterintuitively, friction was independent of the apparent feature contact area making it difficult to tailor friction via the feature contact area. This occurred because, even though the apparent feature contact area was adjusted, the surface roughness and nominal flatness at the contact interface was preserved ensuring that the real contact area and thereby the friction, were likewise preserved. This is an interesting special case, but not universally applicable: friction can indeed be adjusted by structuring provided the intervention leads to a change in real contact area (or interlocking)– and this depends on the specific surface geometry and topography.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Hamilton, Mr Alexander and Bin Jaber, Mr Saad and Mulvihill, Dr Daniel and Xu, Dr Yang and Gadegaard, Professor Nikolaj |
| Creator Roles: | Bin Jaber, S.Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Investigation Hamilton, A.Methodology, Resources Xu, Y.Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review and editing Gadegaard, N.Supervision, Writing – review and editing Mulvihill, D. M.Supervision, Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Project administration, Funding acquisition |
| Authors: | Bin Jaber, S., Hamilton, A., Xu, Y., Kartal, M. E., Gadegaard, N., and Mulvihill, D. M. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy |
| Journal Name: | Tribology International |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0301-679X |
| ISSN (Online): | 1879-2464 |
| Published Online: | 25 July 2020 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2020 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Tribology International 153: 106563 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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