We think it’s pretty safe to assume that most of the electrical connections our readers are making out there involve solder or solder paste. But we’ve all made a crimp connection or two in our ...

The collective behaviour of the asperity ensemble that composes a frictional interface therefore determines the transition mechanism from static to dynamic friction. A complete understanding and ...

Fundamentals of surface contact: surface topography, asperity contact, interfacial phenomena. Friction theories and wear mechanisms. Temperatures in sliding contacts. Hydrodynamic, hydrostatic, ...

The high-profile places where contact actually occurs — called asperity spots or a-spots in materials science — are the real indicators of resistance rating. The design of a good crimp has ...

Crucially, the theory shows the importance of including long-range elastic coupling between asperity contacts which was neglected in all earlier contact mechanics theories. The Persson Theory has ...

Malagnini believes it will happen this year — although researchers “cannot find signs about the Parkfield asperity having ...

The Supreme Court majority objected with some asperity to the suggestion by the dissenters that their judgment put the president above the law. But what other construction can be put upon their words?

We use this to measure oil film thickness, contact area and asperity contact, friction, surface films, and oil film viscosity. We are the world leader in the measurement of interfaces and machine ...

In 18th-century France King Louis XV supposedly uttered this famed line: “After me the deluge.” Which came to portend that ...

Preventing such contact required reducing the asperity height. This in turn required not only a smoother finish but also more ...

Anthony Daniels reads Michel Houellebecq: “Asked what the post-COVID world would be like, the most famous of contemporary French writers, Michel Houellebecq, replied with his customary asperity ...