Friction, Arching, Contact Dynamics
The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:
PREFACE
FRICTION
Sliding dynamics at a multicontact interface
Dry friction as an elasto-plastic response: a schematic model
Reversible and irreversible processes in adhesion, static and kinetic friction of solids
Electrical resistivity and quartz crystal microbalance studies of sliding friction in Xe/Ag(111)
Sliding friction: Contribution from defects
Experimental study of friction beween surfaces with macroscopic asperities
Macro-scale fluctuations induced by micro-scale heterogeneities
Nonlinearity and attractor hopping for stick-slip motion
Elasticity and pinning in solid dry friction
Geometrical effects on dry friction between rough surfaces
The effect of adsorbed hydrogen on the frictional properties of diamond(l11)
Macroscopic stick-slip motion in the Frenkel-Kontorova-Tomlinson model
Chaos in frictional dynamics
ARCHING
Stress fluctuations for granular materials
Force fluctuations in granular media
A new approach to stress propagation in sandpiles and silos
Force networks in granular packings
On giant stress fluctuations in silos
Arching without friction: A simple model
Influence of friction on the force network in granular packings
The effect of particle shape and friction on the stresses in heaps of granular media
The effect of interaction laws on the stresses in frictionless granular media
Propagation of a pressure step in a granular material: The role of wall friction
Arching in hoppers or silos filled with granular materials
Dynamic arches in vertial pipe conveyors
CONTACT DYNAMICS
Numerical investigation of shear zones in granular materials
Density dependence of static friction in granular materials
Force distribution and comminution in ball mills
A theoretical approach to granular media
Interfacial friction in flowing sand
Cluster instability of granular assemblies
Contact of viscoelastic spheres
Dry friction of a solid body in a rotating drum
Dynamics of a sliding particle in a rotating drum
Friction experienced by a particle moving on a rough inclined plane
Surface flow of rotated granular systems and the impact of macromechanical stochastics
Macromechanics of the granular chute flow
Size segregation in a two dimensional rotating drum
Simulations of vibrated granular media in two and three dimensional systems
Bulk and interface dispersion of suspensions in the inertial regime
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