Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Emergence of self-affine surfaces during adhesive wear

  • Enrico Milanese,
  • Tobias Brink,
  • Ramin Aghababaei,
  • Jean-François Molinari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09127-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Surface roughness evolution with time is key for tribological applications. Here, the authors demonstrate by numerical simulations the evolution of sliding surfaces into self-affine morphologies during adhesive wear due to the formation of a third body trapped at the interface.