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A laboratory study was undertaken to investigate how changes in flow regime and hydrograph shape (number of cycled hydrographs and duration of each hydrograph) together impact bedload transport and resulting bed morphology. Three hydrologic conditions (exp ...

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Nanoscale Depth Profiling of Residual Stresses Due to Fine Surface Finishing

Joris Pierre Everaerts

Mechanical polishing is commonly used for both surface finishing and metallographic sample preparation for a broad range of materials. However, polishing causes local deformation and induces residual stress, which has an important effect on many surface ph ...

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Non-contact polishing of single crystal diamond by ion beam etching

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi

We propose a non-contact surface finishing method for brittle substrates by ion beam etching and we experimentally demonstrate polishing of (100) single crystal diamond surface. We model and simulate the polishing process, and verify the results experiment ...

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Quantifying uncertainties in contact mechanics of rough surfaces using the multilevel Monte Carlo method

Fabio Nobile, Sebastian Krumscheid, Valentine Ginette Madeleine Rey

We quantify the effect of uncertainties on quantities of interest related to contact mechanics of rough surfaces. Specifically, we consider the problem of frictionless non adhesive normal contact between two semi infinite linear elastic solids subject to u ...

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Nanostructured surface topographies have an effect on bactericidal activity

Jürgen Brugger, Songmei Wu

Background Due to the increased emergence of antimicrobial resistance, alternatives to minimize the usage of antibiotics become attractive solutions. Biophysical manipulation of material surface topography to prevent bacterial adhesion is one promising app ...

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Fractal surfaces in adhesive wear processes.

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Ramin Aghababaei, Tobias Brink

Wear of materials plays a key role in the durability of manifactured objects and it has thus an economical importance in our society. In spite of the efforts, a unified picture of the underlying physics of the phenomenon is still far from being reached, be ...

2018

Continuum versus discrete approach in modeling of wear processes

Enrico Milanese, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

Wear of materials is a very complex phenomenon due to its tight correlation with all the other phenomena that take place at the interface of two bodies interacting with one another, like friction, contact and lubrication. When two opposing surfaces slide o ...

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A Method to Form Smooth Films of Liquid Metal Supported by Elastomeric Substrate

Stéphanie Lacour, Arthur Edouard Hirsch

Several methods are proposed to manipulate and pattern liquid metal films into elastic conductors but all lack precise control over the film thickness and roughness, thereby limiting its uniformity, stability, and reproducibility. Here, an approach relying ...

WILEY2018

Surface roughness evolution in atomistic simulations of adhesive wear: from asperity collision to three-body configuration.

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Ramin Aghababaei, Tobias Brink

Surface roughness is relevant to all the phenomena and processes that take place at the interface between two bodies, like adhesion, contact, friction, and wear. Understanding the relation between surface roughness evolution and wear is therefore key in se ...

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Optimisation of Current and Pulse Duration in Electric Discharge Drilling of D2 Steel Using Graphite Electrode

Electric discharge machining (EDM) is one of the viable techniques for machining of D2 steel, in which the material removal occurs by spark erosion. The poor selection of EDM parameters affect the machining quality and productivity. Considering this, the p ...

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