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  2. Stefan adhesion - Wikipedia

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    Stefan adhesion is the normal stress (force per unit area) acting between two discs when their separation is attempted. Stefan's law governs the flow of a viscous fluid between the solid parallel plates and thus the forces acting when the plates are approximated or separated.

  3. Compatibility (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    In the continuum description of a solid body we imagine the body to be composed of a set of infinitesimal volumes or material points. Each volume is assumed to be connected to its neighbors without any gaps or overlaps. Certain mathematical conditions have to be satisfied to ensure that gaps/overlaps do not develop when a continuum body is ...

  4. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    When two solid surfaces are brought into close proximity, they experience attractive van der Waals forces. R. S. Bradley's van der Waals model [41] provides a means of calculating the tensile force between two rigid spheres with perfectly smooth surfaces. The Hertzian model of contact does not consider adhesion possible.

  5. Force lines - Wikipedia

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    Force lines is a method used in solid mechanics for visualization of internal forces in a deformed body. A force line is a curve representing graphically the internal force acting within a body across imaginary internal surfaces. The force lines show the maximal internal forces and their directions.

  6. Line of action - Wikipedia

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    The line of action is shown as the vertical dotted line. It extends in both directions relative to the force vector, but is most useful where it defines the moment arm. In physics , the line of action (also called line of application ) of a force ( F → ) is a geometric representation of how the force is applied.

  7. Cauchy stress tensor - Wikipedia

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    So, the force acting on the plane n is the reaction exerted by the other half of the parallelepiped and has an opposite sign. where the right-hand-side represents the product of the mass enclosed by the tetrahedron and its acceleration: ρ is the density, a is the acceleration, and h is the height of the tetrahedron, considering the plane n as ...

  8. Frictional contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    For instance the bouncing of a rubber ball on a surface depends on the frictional interaction at the contact interface. Here the total force versus indentation and lateral displacement are of main concern. At the intermediate scale, one is interested in the local stresses, strains and deformations of the contacting bodies in and near the ...

  9. Rotating reference frame - Wikipedia

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    Obviously, a rotating frame of reference is a case of a non-inertial frame. Thus the particle in addition to the real force is acted upon by a fictitious force...The particle will move according to Newton's second law of motion if the total force acting on it is taken as the sum of the real and fictitious forces.