Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic ...

Abstract: This paper presents a computational study on the role of poroelasticity in gel friction. Motivated by recent experimental studies in the literature, we develop a plane strain finite element ...

Figure 4: Comparison of the predicted and measured rupture lengths. Our results provide clear evidence that frictional rupture is really a fracture process that can be quantitatively described by ...