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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 63, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.104101
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I consider a semi-infinite elastic solid sliding on a flat hard substrate. I present a linear instability analysis to determine when the steady sliding motion becomes unstable with respect to infinitesimal perturbations. I consider a general case ww here the interfacial frictional shear stress depends not only on the sliding velocity but also on a state variable. I show that when the pressure in the contact area between the solids is constant, no linear instability occurs if the kinetic friction coefficient increases monotonically with the sliding velocity, d mu (k)/dv(0)>0. However, when the pressure at the interface varies spatially, elastic instabilities may also occur when d mu (k)/dv(0)>0. I discuss the physical origin of this effect, and suggest that these instabilities may be precursors of the Schallamach waves.
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