Contact Mechanics – Lehrstuhl für Materialsimulation

Anisotropic percolation and Reynolds flow

Percolation and Reynolds Flow in Elastic Contacts of Isotropic and Anisotropic, Randomly Rough Surfaces
Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser,
Tribol. Lett. 69, 1 (2021)
(https://rdcu.be/cbSXO) (open access)

Modeling adhesive hysteresis

Modeling adhesive hysteresis
Anle Wang, Yunong Zhou, and Martin H. Müser
Lubricants 9, 17 (2021)
preprint submitted to Lubricants
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants9020017 (open access)

Contact mechanics across the spatial dimensions

Elastic contacts of randomly rough indenters with thin sheets, membranes under tension, half spaces, and beyond
Martin H. Müser
Tribol. Lett. 69, 25 (2021); (accepted version)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-020-01383-w (open access)

Contacts of random surfaces with correlation

Effect of structural parameters on the relative contact area for ideal, anisotropic, and correlated random roughness
Yunong Zhou and Martin H. Müser,
Front. Mech. Eng. 6, article 59 (2020).
DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2020.00059 (open access)

Thermal contact mechanics

How thermal fluctuations affect hard-wall repulsion and thereby Hertzian contact mechanics
Yunong Zhou, Anle Wang, and Martin H. Müser,
Frontiers 5, 67 (2019); (submitted version)
DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2019.00067

Plasticity of polymer surfaces

A. Tiwari, A. Wang, M.H. Müser, and B.N.J. Persson,
Contact mechanics for solids with randomly rough surfaces and plasticity,
Lubricants 7, 90 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.3390/lubricants7100090 (open source)

Contact mechanics of hydrogels

Martin H. Müser, Han Li, and Roland Bennewitz,
Modeling the contact mechanics of hydrogels
Lubricants 7, 35 (2019).

DOI: 10.3390/lubricants7040035 (free access)

Limits of structural lubricity

Martin H. Müser,
Are there limits to superlubricity of graphene in hard, rough contacts?
Frontiers in mechanical engineering 5, 28 (2019)
open access and submitted version
DOI: 10.3389/fmech.2019.00028

Contact mechanics of stepped indenters

Martin H. Müser,
Elasticity does not necessarily break down in nanoscale contacts
Tribol. Lett. 67, 57 (2019) (accepted version, view article)

DOI: 10.1007/s11249-019-1170-y

Setting boundary-element problems on FIRE

Yunong Zhou, Michael Moseler, and Martin H. Müser,
Solution of boundary-element problems using the fast-inertial-relaxation-engine method
Phys. Rev. B 99, 144103 (2019) (accepted version)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.144103

Limits of self-affinity in contact between randomly rough surfaces

Martin H. Müser and Anle Wang,
Contact-patch-size distribution and limits of self-affinity in contacts between randomly rough surfaces
Lubricants 6, 85 (2018)
DOI: 10.3390/lubricants6040085 (free access)

Internal stresses

Martin H. Müser,
Internal, elastic stresses below randomly rough contacts
J. Mech. Phys. Solids
(accepted version upon request, or after June 20, 2020 on this site)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.06.012.

Response to Comment on Contact-Mechanics Challenge

Martin H. Müser,
Response to “A Comment on Meeting the Contact‑(Mechanics) Challenge”
Tribol. Lett. 65, 103 (2017).
(accepted version)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-018-0986-1.

The height-difference ACF

Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser,
On the usefulness of the height-difference-autocorrelation function
for contact mechanics
Tribol. Int. 123, 224-233 (2018).
Free download (until May 12, 2018)
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2018.02.002
submitted version

On the linearity of contact area and reduced pressure

Martin H. Müser,
On the linearity of contact area and reduced pressure
Tribol. Lett. 65, 129 (2017).

DOI: 10.1007/s11249-017-0912-y. (view only)
(accepted version).

Gauging Persson theory on adhesion

Anle Wang and Martin H. Müser,
Gauging Persson theory on adhesion
Tribol. Lett. 65, 103 (2017).
(accepted version)
DOI: 10.3390/10.1007/s11249-017-0886-9.

Contact-mechanics-modeling challenge

Martin H. Müser, Wolf B. Dapp, Romain Bugnicourt et al,
Meeting the contact-mechanics challenge
Tribol. Lett. 65, 188 (2017).
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-017-0900-2.
(submitted version)

Selected as one of 250 articles by Springer-Nature as a potential change-the-world article.

See also: Robert W. Carpick’s Perspective in
DOI: Science 359, 38 (2017) .

GFDD

Syam P. Venugopalan, Martin H. Müser and Lucia Nicola
Green’s function molecular dynamics meets discrete dislocation plasticity
Model. Simul. Mater. Sc. Eng. 25, 065018 (2017). (submitted version)

DOI: 10.1088/1361-651X/aa7e0e

GFMD – finite height and shear

S. P. Venugopalan, Martin H. Müser and Lucia Nicola
Green’s function molecular dynamics: Including finite heights, shear, and body fields
Model. Simul. Mater. Sc. Eng. 25, 034001 (2017)
DOI: 10.1088/1361-651X/aa606b
(accepted version)

Contact mechanics of thin, elastic sheets

Carmine Putignano, Wolf B. Dapp and Martin H. Müser,
A Green’s Function Molecular Dynamics Approach to the Mechanical Contact between Thin Elastic Sheets and Randomly Rough Surfaces
Biomimetics 1, 7 (2016)
DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics1010007.

Nominally flat Hertzian contacts

Martin H. Müser,
On the contact area of nominally flat Hertzian contacts,
Tribol. Lett. 64, 14 (2016). (submitted version)
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-016-0750-3

Leakage near percolation

Wolf B. Dapp and Martin H. Müser,
Fluid leakage near the percolation threshold,
Sci. Rep. 6, 19513 (2016).
DOI: 110.1038/srep19513.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00186 (submitted version).

Dimensionless measure for adhesion

Martin H. Müser,
A dimensionless measure for adhesion and effects of the range of adhesion
in contacts of nominally flat surfaces,
Tribol. Int. 100, 41–47 (2016)
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2015.11.010.

Critical constrictions

Wolf B. Dapp and Martin H. Müser,
Contact mechanics of and Reynolds flow through saddle points,
EPL 109, 44001 (2015).
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/109/44001

Test of Persson Theory

Wolf B. Dapp, Nikolay Prodanov, and Martin H. Müser,
Systematic analysis of Persson’s contact mechanics theory of randomly rough elastic surfaces,
J. Phys. Condens Matt. 26, 355002 (2014).
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/35/355002
(accepted version).

Single-asperity contact mechanics

Martin H. Müser,
Single-asperity contact mechanics with positive and negative work of adhesion: Influence of finite-range interactions and a continuum description for the squeeze-out of wetting fluids,
Beilstein J. Nanotech. 5, 419-437 (2014).
(accepted version)
Open access: http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/content/5/1/50

Layering of ionic liquids

Judith Hoth, Florian Hausen, Martin H. Müser, and Roland Bennewitz,
Force microscopy of layering and friction in an ionic liquid ,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. 26, 284110 (2014).
(accepted version)
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/28/284110

Contact area and mean gap

Nikolay Prodanov, Wolf. B. Dapp, and Martin H. Müser,
On the contact area and mean gap of rough, elastic contacts:
Dimensional analysis, numerical corrections and reference data,
Tribol. Lett. 53, 433–448 (2014).
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-013-0282-z,
arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7547.

Finite-size effects in contacts between self-affine surfaces

L. Pastewka, N. Prodanov, B. Lorenz, M. H. Müser, M. O. Robbins, and B. N. J. Persson,
Finite-size effect in the interfacial stiffness of rough elastic contacts,
Phys. Rev. E 87, 062809 (2013); (accepted version).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.062809

Contact mechanics of LST surfaces

N. Prodanov, C. Gachot, A. Rosenkranz, F. Mücklich, and M. H. Müser,
Contact mechanics of laser-textured surfaces,
Tribol. Lett. 50, 41-48 (2013); (accepted version).
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-012-0064-z

Friction between laser-patterned surfaces

C. Gachot, A. Rosenkranz, L. Reinert, E. Ramos-Moore, N. Souza, M. H. Müser and F. Mücklich,
Dry friction between laser-patterned surfaces: Role of alignment, structural wavelength and surface chemistry,
Tribol. Lett. 49, 193-202 (2013); (accepted version).
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-012-0057-y

Contact percolation and leakage

W. B. Dapp, A. Lücke, B. N. J. Persson, and M. H. Müser,
Self-affine elastic contacts: percolation and leakage
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 244301 (2012); (accepted version).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.244301

Cuts through self-affine surfaces

S. B. Ramisetti, C. Campana, G. Anciaux, J.-F. Molinari, M. H. Müser, and M. O. Robbins,
Autocorrelation functions for contour cuts through self-affine surfaces,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. 23 215004 (2011); (submitted version). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/23/21/215004

Transverse interfacial stiffness

C. Campana, B. N. J. Persson, and M. H. Müser,
Transverse and normal interfacial stiffness of solids with randomly rough surfaces,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23, 085001 (2011) (accepted version).
DOI information: stacks.iop.org/JPhysCM/23/085001.

Implementation of Green’s function molecular dynamics: an extension to LAMMPS

L. T. Kong, G. Bartels, C. Campana, C. Denniston, and M. H. Müser,
Implementation of Green’s function molecular dynamics: an extension to LAMMPS,
Comput. Phys. Comm. 180, 1004-1010 (2009); ( submitted version),
DOI information: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.12.035.

Elastic contact between self-affine surfaces

C. Campana, M. H. Müser, and M. O. Robbins,
Elastic contact between self-affine surfaces: Comparison of numerical stress and contact correlation fucntions with analytic predictions,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 354013 (2008). Download preprint or http://arXiv.org/abs/0804.0062, DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/35/354013