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The contact of two surfaces in relative rotating motion occurs in many practical applications, from mechanical devices to human joints, displaying an intriguing interplay of effects at the onset of sliding due to the axisymmetric stress distribution. Theoretical and numerical models have been developed for some typical configurations, but work remains to be done to understand how to modify the emergent friction properties in this configuration. In this paper, we extend the two-dimensional (2D) spring-block model to investigate friction between surfaces in torsional contact. We investigate how the model describes the behavior of an elastic surface slowly rotating over a rigid substrate, comparing results with analytical calculations based on energy conservation. We show that an appropriate grading of the tribological properties of the surface can be used to avoid a non-uniform transition to sliding due to the axisymmetric configuration.
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Gianluca COSTAGLIOLA. He received his master degree in physics at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2011 and a Ph.D. in physics in 2015 at the University of Torino. He worked as postdoc researcher at the University of Torino from 2015 to 2019, and he is currently employed at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, as postdoc holding a Eurotech fellowship, under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant programme. His research is focused on numerical simulations applied to material science, particularly in the field of tribology and fracture mechanics.
Federico BOSIA. He graduated in physics at the University of Torino in 1996 and obtained a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2002 at EPFL (Switzerland). He has worked as research assistant and postdoc at the University of Roma “La Sapienza” (Italy), the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany), and the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He worked at the University of Torino from 2007 to 2019 and is assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino since 2020. He has published about 110 papers in leading international journals. He is currently responsible for PoliTo for the Future Emerging Technologies-Open project BOHEME. He was previously involved as additional participant in an European Research Council Starting grant on bioinspired materials and as third party in a FET Proactive grant project on the design of devices for regeneration of spinal cord injuries. He has experience in both experimental mechanics of composite materials and numerical multiscale modelling of fracture and elastic wave propagation.
Nicola M PUGNO. He was born in 1972. He obtained master degrees in engineering and physics (both cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and biology. He is a professor of solids and structural mechanics at the University of Trento since 2012 and a director of the Laboratory for Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta Materials & Mechanics there (previously founded at Politecnico di Torino as Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics Giuseppe Maria Pugno), and a professor of material science at the Queen Mary University of London since 2013 (part-time). He has published about 500 papers in international journals. He is a plenary and invited speaker in several international conferences (including Falling Walls, World Economic Forum and at the European Parliament, invited by the European Research Council—ERC, opening plenary lecturer at International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2020+1). He is an academic editor of PLoS ONE and of Scientific Reports among several others and first editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Materials and its section on Mechanics. He is a winner of 4 ERC (1 StG and 3 PoC) and other EU grants, such as 1 FET Proactive, 1 FET Open (as coordinator), Graphene Flagship (rampup, core 1, 2, and 3 phases), and national grants. He is also a winner of the Griffith Medal and Prize 2017. See details at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~pugno/.
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Costagliola, G., Bosia, F. & Pugno, N.M. Tuning of frictional properties in torsional contact by means of disk grading. Friction 10, 787–802 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0535-z
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