Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Critical length scale controls adhesive wear mechanisms

  • Ramin Aghababaei,
  • Derek H. Warner,
  • Jean-Francois Molinari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11816
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Adhesive wear can proceed through qualitatively different mechanisms, with conflicting results in the literature. Here the authors observe a transition between two regimes in simulations using model interatomic potentials, allowing development of a simple analytical theory to describe past results.