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Contact Area vs. Load: Simple Scaling Laws
04.07.2016 Aydar Akchurin

“God made the bulk; surfaces were invented by the devil”, a Nobel prize winning physicist Wolfgang Ernst Pauli said. In tribology, as in many other sciences, surface features (asperities, roughness) play an important role. In […]

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