Meeting the Contact-Mechanics Challenge

On the flow through plastically deformed surfaces under unloading: A spectral approach

(2017) Francesc Pérez-Ràfols et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART C-JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

Gauging Persson Theory on Adhesion

(2017) Anle Wang et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Contact area of rough spheres: Large scale simulations and simple scaling laws

(2016) Lars Pastewka et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Continuum mechanics at the atomic scale: Insights into non-adhesive contacts using molecular dynamics simulations

(2016) Soheil Solhjoo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

A dimensionless measure for adhesion and effects of the range of adhesion in contacts of nominally flat surfaces

(2016) Martin H. Müser   TRIBOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Study of liquid-mediated adhesion between 3D rough surfaces: A spectral approach

(2015) Amir Rostami et al.   TRIBOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

The Sandia Fracture Challenge: blind round robin predictions of ductile tearing

(2014) B. L. Boyce et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FRACTURE

A numerical model for the deterministic analysis of adhesive rough contacts down to the nano-scale

(2014) Simon Medina et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Theory of adhesion: Role of surface roughness

(2014) B. N. J. Persson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Contact between rough surfaces and a criterion for macroscopic adhesion

(2014) Lars Pastewka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On the Fractal Dimension of Rough Surfaces

(2014) B. N. J. Persson   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

Single-asperity contact mechanics with positive and negative work of adhesion: Influence of finite-range interactions and a continuum description for the squeeze-out of wetting fluids

(2014) Martin H Müser   Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

Finite-size scaling in the interfacial stiffness of rough elastic contacts

(2013) Lars Pastewka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Predictions of the average surface separation and stiffness between contacting elastic and elastic–plastic sinusoidal surfaces

(2013) Amir Rostami et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART J-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

Numerical estimation of wear in reciprocating tribological experiments

(2013) S Ilincic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART J-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

On the Validity of the Method of Reduction of Dimensionality: Area of Contact, Average Interfacial Separation and Contact Stiffness

(2013) I. A. Lyashenko et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

On the Contact Area and Mean Gap of Rough, Elastic Contacts: Dimensional Analysis, Numerical Corrections, and Reference Data

(2013) Nikolay Prodanov et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

The influence of the statistical properties of self-affine surfaces in elastic contacts: A numerical investigation

(2012) C. Putignano et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Normal contact stiffness of elastic solids with fractal rough surfaces for one- and three-dimensional systems

(2012) Roman Pohrt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Self-Affine Elastic Contacts: Percolation and Leakage

(2012) Wolf B. Dapp et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Implementing molecular dynamics on hybrid high performance computers – Particle–particle particle-mesh

(2011) W. Michael Brown et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

A new efficient numerical method for contact mechanics of rough surfaces

(2011) C. Putignano et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Interfacial separation between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces: Comparison between theory and numerical techniques

(2011) A. Almqvist et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Highly optimized embedded-atom-method potentials for fourteen fcc metals

(2011) H. W. Sheng et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Finite and boundary element method contact mechanics on rough, artificial hip joints

(2011) S Ilincic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART J-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

Interacting and coalescing Hertzian asperities: A new multiasperity contact model

(2011) L. Afferrante et al.   WEAR

Implementing molecular dynamics on hybrid high performance computers – short range forces

(2010) W. Michael Brown et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS

Adhesive contact of rough surfaces: Comparison between numerical calculations and analytical theories

(2009) G. Carbone et al.   EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E

A slightly corrected Greenwood and Williamson model predicts asymptotic linearity between contact area and load

(2009) Giuseppe Carbone   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO–the Open Visualization Tool

(2009) Alexander Stukowski   MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Combined finite element-boundary element method modelling of elastic multi-asperity contacts

(2009) S Ilincic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART J-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

Hybrid Atomistic/Continuum Study of Contact and Friction Between Rough Solids

(2009) Binquan Luan et al.   TRIBOLOGY LETTERS

The coefficient of proportionality κ between real contact area and load, with new asperity models

(2009) Marco Paggi et al.   WEAR

Contact mechanics with adhesion: Interfacial separation and contact area

(2008) C. Yang et al.   EPL

Elastic contact between self-affine surfaces: comparison of numerical stress and contact correlation functions with analytic predictions

(2008) Carlos Campañá et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

On the elastic energy and stress correlation in the contact between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces

(2008) B N J Persson   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Asperity contact theories: Do they predict linearity between contact area and load?

(2008) G. Carbone et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Using Green’s function molecular dynamics to rationalize the success of asperity models when describing the contact between self-affine surfaces

(2008) Carlos Campañá   PHYSICAL REVIEW E