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Volume 103, Number 5, September 2013
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Article Number | 56001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/103/56001 | |
Published online | 26 September 2013 |
Model for the resistance force acting on circular bodies in the imminence of rolling
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná - Caixa Postal 19044, 81531-980, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Received: 5 April 2013
Accepted: 4 September 2013
The laws of friction are reasonably well understood for the case of blocks in contact with rough plane surfaces. However, as far as bodies with circular sections are concerned, the physics of friction becomes more involving and it is not possible to adopt a simple conceptual framework to explain all phenomena. In particular, there is no approach so far to the problem of the resistance force that opposes to circular bodies that remain at rest while acted upon by small forces. Here we fill this gap by introducing a mechanical model based on both the elasticity theory and Hertz contact mechanics. Our approach furnishes a quantitative expression for the critical force beyond which rest can no longer be maintained. Besides confirming the expected proportionality of the resistance force with the load, our result contains no free parameters and is expressed solely in terms of physical properties of the problem, such as the pressure of the body per unit of superficial area, a relation between the Young modulus of the surface and its Poisson ratio, and the symmetry of the contact.
PACS: 62.20.Qp – Friction, tribology, and hardness / 46.55.+d – Tribology and mechanical contacts / 45.40.-f – Dynamics and kinematics of rigid bodies
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