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SOFT MATTER
Volume 7, Issue 21, Pages 10395-10406Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05128h
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- Region Puglia through the constitution of the TRAS-FORMA Laboratory Network [28]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G026114/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G026114/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We study the lubricated steady sliding contact between rough surfaces of (elastically) soft solids. A novel mean field theory of mixed lubrication is presented, which takes into account the coupled effect of asperity-asperity and asperity-fluid interactions. We calculate the fluid flow factors, and discuss the nature of the transition from the boundary lubrication regime, where the normal load is supported by the asperity-asperity interactions (sometimes mediated by boundary films), to the hydrodynamic regime, where a thin fluid film prevents direct contact between the mating surfaces.
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