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Surface roughness

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Roughness Evolution Induced by Third-Body Wear

Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Tobias Brink

Surface roughness is a key factor when it comes to friction and wear, as well as to other physical properties. These phenomena are controlled by mechanisms acting at small scales, in which the topography of apparently flat surfaces is revealed. Roughness i ...

New York2024

Technology challenges and integration of the plasma position reflectometer in RFX-mod2

Riccardo Agnello

The integration of the new plasma position reflectometer in the RFX-mod2 experiment (the upgraded version of the previous RFX-mod that operated until 2015) is presented in this contribution. Particular attention has been devoted to the high field side subs ...

Lausanne2024

Local relaxation of residual stress in high-strength steel welded joints treated by HFMI

Alain Nussbaumer, Yuki Ono, Heikki Tapani Remes

This research studies the influence of high-peak loads on local relaxation of residual stress and fatigue damage in highstrength steel welded joints treated by high-frequency mechanical impact (HFMI) treatment. The joint behavior is simulated with elastic– ...

2024

How roughness emerges on natural and engineered surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Ramin Aghababaei

Roughness, defined as unevenness of material surfaces, plays an important role in determining how engineering components or natural objects interact with other bodies and their environment. The emergence of fractal roughness on natural and engineered surfa ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023

Dataset for "Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid"

John Martin Kolinski

This dataset supports the publication 'Elastocapillary menisci mediate interaction of neighboring structures at the surface of a compliant solid' by Lebo Molefe and John M. Kolinski, Physical Review E, (2023). The data are surface profiles of textured surf ...

Zenodo2023

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The backscattering process in hollow core fibres shows a large similarity with Rayleigh scattering, offering the potential to be exploited for distributed sensing. A classical Φ-OTDR implementation is used to observe the backscattering signal from the surf ...

SPIE2023

Surface roughness and shear resistance in cracked concrete

Guillaume Anciaux, Mohit Pundir

In concrete structures, opened cracks contribute significantly to the transfer of shear and normal stresses through the contact forces acting on fractured surfaces. Such contact forces are due to protruding asperities, engaged by interlocking and friction ...

2022

Thermal Modelling and Experimental Validation in the Perspective of Tool Steel Laser Polishing

Eric Boillat, Alexandre Masserey, Bastian Meylan

Laser polishing (LP) is a process that allows a significant reduction of the surface roughness of a metal workpiece via re-melting a shallow layer of material. However, the practical use of LP is limited due to the difficulty of satisfying the high surface ...

MDPI2022

Experimental Analysis of Ductile Cutting Regime in Face Milling of Sintered Silicon Carbide

Lorenz Hagelüken

In this study, sintered silicon carbide is machined on a high-precision milling machine with a high-speed spindle, closed-loop linear drives and friction-free micro gap hydrostatics. A series of experiments was undertaken varying the relevant process param ...

2022

Effect of wear particles and roughness on nanoscale friction

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Tobias Brink

Frictional contacts lead to the formation of a surface layer called the third body, consisting of wear particles and structures resulting from their agglomerates. Its behavior and properties at the nanoscale control the macroscopic tribological performance ...

2022

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