I learned to respect friction, as a phenomenon with many nuances, when I was a graduate student. One day, while teaching a problem session in elementary mechanics, I unwisely invented a new problem to ...

Abstract: This work is concerned with the Coulomb friction model in continuum linear elastostatics. We consider the two‐dimensional problem and we recall that an infinity of solutions corresponding to ...

1 Department of Mathematics, University College London (UCL), London, UK 2 Department of Bioengineering and Medical Physics, University College London (UCL), London, UK When a compliant sheet of ...

Friction is a force that resists the motion of one object against another. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists began ...