... received August 20, 2003. Associate Editor: R. W. Snidle. 20 February 2003 20 August 2003 28 06 2004 friction lubricants interface roughness mechanical contact rheology The conditions under which lubricated contacts in machine element applications have to operate...

... force, which is the product of jump-off-contact cantilever deflection and the spring constant of the cantilever equals to the adhesion force (Cappella et al. 31 ). In this study the pull-off force is measured from the pull-off curve, i.e., D-O in Fig. 8 . interface roughness mechanical contact...

... by the Tribology Division September 19, 2000; revised manuscript received January 23, 2001. Associate Editor: J. A. Williams. 19 September 2000 23 January 2001 sliding friction mechanical contact lubrication metals tribology interface roughness The typical results...

... 2001 switchgear fatigue surface cleaning power transmission life testing interface roughness polishing The power density of a gearbox is an important consideration for many applications and is especially important for gearboxes used on aircraft. One factor that limits gearbox power...

... heads mechanical contact interface roughness friction In order to achieve substantially higher recording densities and higher reliability of magnetic tape recording systems, the head/tape interface must be carefully optimized. Various head contours have been designed for advanced high...

...Yongwu Zhao,; David M. Marietta, and; L. Chang [S0742-4787(00)02602-3] mechanical contact plastic flow elastic deformation interface roughness tribology The authors thank Dr. Etsion’s interest in the paper. We agree with Dr. Etsion that with a higher contact pressure a smaller...

...Izhak Etsion [S0742-4787(00)022002-5] micromechanics mechanical contact elastic deformation plastic flow pressure interface roughness The authors have presented an elegant way to overcome a shortcoming of the CEB model by smoothing the transition from elastic to plastic state...

... by the Tribology Division February 5, 1999; revised manuscript received September 21, 1999. Associate Technical Editor: T. Lubrecht. 05 February 1999 21 September 1999 mechanical contact interface roughness friction heat tribology fast Fourier transforms simulation The friction...

... March 1999 10 August 1999 micromechanical devices hydrodynamics interface roughness machine bearings drag sliding friction deformation steel The field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has shown great promise in the last 20 years with the emergence of new manufacturing...

... received July 29, 1999. Associate Technical Editor: J. Fre^ne. 29 July 1999 porosity surface phenomena machine bearings shear flow stress analysis lubrication interface roughness In a recent paper, Gururajan and Prakash 1 have studied the effect of surface roughness...

... magnetic heads magnetic disc storage friction slip contact resistance interface roughness lubrication disc drives Basic understanding of the friction behavior at magnetic head-disk interfaces during the starting operation is imperative to the design of hard disk drives with increased data...