Model for static and kinetic friction (rate and state)

We recently proposed a model for rate and state friction by studying the collective (statistical) behavior of viscoelastic asperities. Various observed features of friction emerge as collective phenomena, without postulating them directly at the microscale. The paper is available at the link below. 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509614002063

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