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  2. Friction - Wikipedia

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    The friction coefficient is an empirical (experimentally measured) structural property that depends only on various aspects of the contacting materials, such as surface roughness. The coefficient of friction is not a function of mass or volume. For instance, a large aluminum block has the same coefficient of friction as a small aluminum block.

  3. Wear coefficient - Wikipedia

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    As can be estimated from weight loss and the density , the wear coefficient can also be expressed as: [2] K = 3 H W P L ρ {\displaystyle K={\frac {3HW}{PL\rho }}} As the standard method uses the total volume loss and the total sliding distance, there is a need to define the net steady-state wear coefficient:

  4. Capstan equation - Wikipedia

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    where is the applied tension on the line, is the resulting force exerted at the other side of the capstan, is the coefficient of friction between the rope and capstan materials, and is the total angle swept by all turns of the rope, measured in radians (i.e., with one full turn the angle =).

  5. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Frictional contact mechanics emphasizes the effect of friction forces. Contact mechanics is part of mechanical engineering . The physical and mathematical formulation of the subject is built upon the mechanics of materials and continuum mechanics and focuses on computations involving elastic , viscoelastic , and plastic bodies in static or ...

  6. Tribology - Wikipedia

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    Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion.It is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on many academic fields, including physics, chemistry, materials science, mathematics, biology and engineering. [1]

  7. Stokes' law - Wikipedia

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    The school experiment uses glycerine or golden syrup as the fluid, and the technique is used industrially to check the viscosity of fluids used in processes. Several school experiments often involve varying the temperature and/or concentration of the substances used in order to demonstrate the effects this has on the viscosity.

  8. Stribeck curve - Wikipedia

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    Thurston did not have the experimental means to record a continuous graph of the coefficient of friction but only measured it at discrete points. This may be the reason why the minimum in the coefficient of friction for a liquid-lubricated journal bearing was not discovered by him, but was demonstrated by the graphs of Martens and Stribeck.

  9. Floor slip resistance testing - Wikipedia

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    ANSI/NFSI B101.1-2009 was allowed to expire because it's a static coefficient of friction test, which measures how slippery a floor is to someone standing still on it. All static tests, such as ASTM D2047, ASTM C1028, ASTM F1678 and ANSI/NFSI B101.1 have been shown to lack any correlation to real-world floor slip potential. [19]