I submitted the manuscript "An Archard-type multiscale theory of hysteretic friction on viscoelastic half-planes, built on exact per-scale viscoelastic contact solutions" for consideration as a Regular Article.
Dear Colleague,
we are organizing a thematic session on Contact Mechanics (SM02) at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024, www.ictam2024.org
We are also pleased to inform you that:
The Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Adhesion is this summer (23-28 July 2023). The meeting will be held on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts and will have more than 20 invited talks from world leaders in the fields of adhesion, soft matter, and materials. This is a great meeting for students and early career researchers to get connected to the community. Poster presentations are strongly encouraged from all participants, and poster abstracts can still be submitted.
Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a recent work we have been doing to set up a library of examples of discrete one-sided contact problems with Coulomb friction.
The collection of problems can be found here https://github.com/FrictionalContactLibrary/fclib-library and the C API for writing and listing these files here:
dear collegues, I may be interested to share your views on an "asperity theory" modified Persson's rubber friction contact mechanics theory which I find not clearly motivated and seems to lead to erroneous conclusions ---- but I am also unable to reproduce the results claimed by the authors. The preprint is here, and the original paper attached: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359392510
Our new book in structural engineering and mechanics is released!
Georgios Drosopoulos, Georgios Stavroulakis,
Nonlinear Mechanics for Composite Heterogeneous Structures, CRC Press, 2022
The relationships between surface roughness, contact pressure and contact resistance are studied in this work published three years ago.
It is imporant to distinguish between the different conduction mechanisms acting at contacts at different scales, in order to better understand how surface structure and surface chemistry can alter the behaviour of electrical contacts
