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  2. Contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Normal contact mechanics or frictionless contact mechanics focuses on normal stresses caused by applied normal forces and by the adhesion present on surfaces in close contact, even if they are clean and dry. Frictional contact mechanics emphasizes the effect of friction forces.

  3. Contact force - Wikipedia

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    Contact forces are often decomposed into orthogonal components, one perpendicular to the surface(s) in contact called the normal force, and one parallel to the surface(s) in contact, called the friction force. [1] Not all forces are contact forces; for example, the weight of an object is the force between the object and the Earth, even though ...

  4. Friction - Wikipedia

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    The linearity between applied load and true contact area, arising from asperity deformation, gives rise to the linearity between static frictional force and normal force, found for typical Amonton–Coulomb type friction. [43] The static friction force must be overcome by an applied force before an object can move.

  5. Frictional contact mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Frictional contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of bodies in the presence of frictional effects, whereas frictionless contact mechanics assumes the absence of such effects. Frictional contact mechanics is concerned with a large range of different scales. At the macroscopic scale, it is applied for the investigation of the motion of ...

  6. Normal force - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: Weight (W), the frictional force (F r), and the normal force (F n) acting on a block.Weight is the product of mass (m) and the acceleration of gravity (g).In the case of an object resting upon a flat table (unlike on an incline as in Figures 1 and 2), the normal force on the object is equal but in opposite direction to the gravitational force applied on the object (or the weight of ...

  7. Force control - Wikipedia

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    Force control. A robotic hand grips a delicate object without crushing it. Force control is the control of the force with which a machine or the manipulator of a robot acts on an object or its environment. By controlling the contact force, damage to the machine as well as to the objects to be processed and injuries when handling people can be ...

  8. Euler's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    Body forces and contact forces acting on the body lead to corresponding moments of those forces relative to a given point. Thus, the total applied torque M about the origin is given by = + where M B and M C respectively indicate the moments caused by the body and contact forces.

  9. Tribology - Wikipedia

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    As known, the contact between two surfaces occurs through the interaction between asperities. [21] If a shearing force is applied in the contact area, it may be possible to detach a small part of the weaker material, due to its adhesion to the harder surface. What is described is precisely the mechanism of the adhesive wear represented in the ...