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S. Ilincic, F. Franek:
"Novel scheme to simulate friction between rough surfaces";
Poster: Junior Scientist Conference 2010 (JSC 2010), Wien; 04-07-2010 - 04-09-2010; in: "Proceedings of the Junior Scientist Conference 2010", (2010), ISBN: 978-3-200-01797-9; 89 - 90.

In this paper a novel method is presented which
allows one to numerically investigate the effect of roughness in
the contact interfaces. The method couples the finite elementand
boundary element methods (FEM-BEM) by also exploiting,
e.g. , the flexibility of the former one in modeling different
material properties, like the anisotropy of multilayers along
different loading directions. The method has been validated
for the frictionless ball-on-plate case, for which an excellent
agreement with the well-known analytical theory of Hertz has
been found. Here, our FEM-BEM method is applied to study
both frictionless and frictional contacts between real surfaces
for which the topography data were experimentally determined
by using a confocal white light microscope.

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