The breakdown of continuum models for mechanical contacts

By Binquan Luan, M. Robbins. Nature, 2005

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials

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Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview (2018, background): “Nevertheless, the usage of the LJ potential has produced fundamental results over the years, as evinced, for example, in the prediction of the breakdown of continuum contact mechanics at the nan oscale [276,277], discussed in more detail in §3.”
Adhesive particulate flow: The discrete-element method and its application in energy and environmental engineering (2011, background): “Luan and Robbins [100] compared continuum predictions of contact models with MD simulations for nanoscale particles.”
Wear mechanism of diamond tools against single crystal silicon in single point diamond turning process (2013, background): “differences between the results obtained for nanotribological problems using continuum mechanics principles [14].”
Mechanical properties of nanoparticles: basics and applications (2014, background): “Specifically, the surface molecular structure, the distribution of terminal groups on the particles’ surfaces and the surface energy variation due to particle deformation could influence and even dominate the adhesion behaviours [84, 153, 158, 187, 188].”
On the Application of Transition State Theory to Atomic-Scale Wear (2010, methodology): “For example, using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the contact between an amorphous spherical tip and an atomically flat single crystal surface, Luan and Robbins [45] have shown that the peak pressure acting on an individual atom in the tip can be up to 5–6 times the average value.”
Recent advances in single-asperity nanotribology (2008, methodology): “others [52, 53], who employed simulations based on the”
A Review of Elastic–Plastic Contact Mechanics (2017, background): “After some early turmoil [189,190], in recent years researchers appear to be coming to a consensus of what a valid elastic rough surface contact model looks like and which of those in the literature meet these expectations [191–196] (except perhaps when adhesion is considered [197]).”