Sentences with phrase «frictional contact»

To date, frictional contact with the seafloor has helped to slow down the ice flow.

A competing model invokes frictional contacts — essentially, particle collisions caused by stress — as the primary driver of thickening.

«This transition demonstrates that shear thickening is driven primarily by frictional contacts, with hydrodynamic forces playing a supporting role at lower concentrations of particles, when mixtures are less dense,» Royer explained.

Molecular probes reveal deviations from Amontons» law in multi-asperity frictional contacts, B. Weber, T. Suhina, T. Junge, L. Pastewka, A. M. Brouwer and D. Bonn, Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 888 (2018)

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The main reason for this is that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact: think of the moving parts in a car engine.

This sustained contact means that the μTUM design can take advantage of the constant adhesion and frictional forces between itself and the surface below it to climb steep inclined terrains.»

These flat pads comprised of frictional material make contact with the rotor, bringing your vehicle to a stop.

Outflow from the ice - dammed lake is estimated to have been 11.3 million cubic meters; the additional 17.5 million cubic meters is due to frictional melting of ice as the flood traveled in contact with the glacier, together with an input from base flow.»