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Reducing friction and wear is essential for building efficient systems with low energy consumption and a long lifetime. Surface texturing is one of the methods to reduce friction and wear, especially in oil-lubricated systems. However, there is still a lac ...
In order to shed light on the influence of riverbed vegetation on river morphodynamics, we perform a linear stability analysis on a minimal model of vegetation dynamics coupled with classical one- and two-dimensional Saint-Venant-Exner equations of morphod ...
Imperfections, like surface roughness and defects, introduced by common manufacturing processes are recognized to favor failure of microfabricated components and systems. Up to now only a reduced part of the ideal strength prediction by zero Kelvin quantum ...
This contribution presents a simple, fast, and low-cost method to track in situ and in real time the evolution of the surface topography. The method combines an optical method (collimated light) with image analysis. The method was validated using a complex ...
As a key dynamic feature of the rock mass, joint results in wave attenuation when a stress wave propagates across it. An experimental study has obtained the relation between the transmission coefficient and the contact area ratio of joints with different t ...
We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...
Roughness determines many functional properties of surfaces, such as adhesion, friction, and (thermal and electrical) contact conductance. Recent analytical models and simulations enable quantitative prediction of these properties from knowledge of the pow ...
Tribological problems are particularly difficult to comprehend. Different physical mechanisms (including the environment, plastic deformation, third body interactions, phase transformations, recrystallization) interact at disparate length and time scales. ...
We discuss the impact of kinetics, and in particular the effect of the Ehrlich-Schwobel barrier (ESB), on the growth and surface morphology of homoepitaxial GaN layers. The presence of an ESB can lead to various self-assembled surface features, which stron ...
In the past decades, wire electric discharge machining (W-EDM) has undergone a number of techno-logical developments aimed at improving its process performance. Still the current practice of W-EDM is not defect-free and results in a number of surface relat ...