Imagine a solid sphere, perfectly round, resting peacefully on two wedges. These wedges, inclined at specific angles, provide support, preventing the sphere from plummeting downwards. The entire ...

Are you excited? I'm excited! Today we're going to dive into our first specific topical area in engineering. Specifically, we'll take a crack at "statics", which is a simple way of restating some ...

1.1 What is friction? Take this everyday example: when a coffee mug rests on a flat table, the kinetic frictional force is zero. There is no force trying to move the mug across the table, so there is ...

Static friction is the force that opposes the initiation of motion between two surfaces in contact. This force acts tangentially along the surfaces and prevents objects from sliding over one another ...

Static friction is the force that prevents an object from being set in motion when it is at rest. It acts in the opposite direction to the applied force, resisting the initiation of motion. The ...

Abstract: It is well known that a tangential force larger than the maximum static friction force is required to initiate the sliding motion between two objects, which is governed by a material ...

Abstract: Static friction modeling is a critical task to have the accurate robot model. In this article, a neural network separation approach to include nonlinear static friction in models of ...