Dry friction cannot be understood on a macroscopic scale without knowing what happens at the contact of sliding surfaces on an atomic scale. Tests on this scale are very expensive and very sensitive to the effects of contamination or inaccurate fitti...
This article proposes a solution to the problem of limiting the representation of three-stage phenomena to linear forms and addresses the stability of the second stage by introducing a novel distribution, the Fragmented Kumar-Trapez (FKT) distributio...
The Frenkel-Kontorova-Tomlinson (FKT) model represents mechanical systems in which the atomic smooth surfaces of two bodies slide against each other. The model is very sensitive to changes of the system parameters, and ranges from simple stable harmo...