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Università della Svizzera italiana

The effects of roughness on the area of contact and on the elastostatic friction : FEM simulation of micro-scale rough contact and real world applications

Rigazzi, Alessandro Pietro ; Krause, Rolf (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014INFO014.

Roughness is everywhere. Every object, every surface we touch or look at, is rough. Even when it looks smooth and flat, if analyzed at the proper length scale, it will reveal roughness. Thus, macro-scale, micro-scale, and even nano-scale roughness exist. What is even more fascinating, is that most of the rough structures, which can be observed at a given length scale, repeat themselves at...