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Nearly all frictional interfaces strengthen as the logarithm of time when sliding at ultra-low speeds. Observations of also logarithmic-in-time growth of interfacial contact area under such conditions have led to constitutive models that assume that this frictional strengthening results from purely time-dependent, and slip-insensitive, contact-area growth. The main laboratory support for such strengthening has traditionally been derived from increases in friction during “load-point hold” experiments, wherein a sliding interface is allowed to gradually self-relax down to subnanometric slip rates. In contrast, following step decreases in the shear loading rate, friction is widely reported to increase over a characteristic slip scale, independent of the magnitude of the slip-rate decrease—a signature of slip-dependent strengthening. To investigate this apparent contradiction, we subjected granite samples to a series of step decreases in shear rate of up to 3.5 orders of magnitude and load-point holds of up to 10,000 s, such that both protocols accessed the phenomenological regime traditionally inferred to demonstrate time-dependent frictional strengthening. When modeling the resultant data, which probe interfacial slip rates ranging from 3 . μ m · s − 1 . to less than 10 − 5 μ m · s − 1 , we found that constitutive models where low slip-rate friction evolution mimics log-time contact-area growth require parameters that differ by orders of magnitude across the different experiments. In contrast, an alternative constitutive model, in which friction evolves only with interfacial slip, fits most of the data well with nearly identical parameters. This leads to the surprising conclusion that frictional strengthening is dominantly slip-dependent, even at subnanometric slip rates.
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Beyond quality and quantity: Spatial distribution of contact encodes frictional strength
Classically, the quantity of contact area AR between two bodies is considered a proxy for the force of friction. However, bond density across the interface—quality of contact—is also relevant, and contemporary debate often centers around the relative importance of these two factors. In this work, we demonstrate that a third factor, often overlooked, plays a significant role in static frictional strength: The spatial distribution of contact. We perform static friction measurements, μ, on three pairs of solid blocks while imaging the contact plane. By using linear regression on hundreds of image-μ pairs, we are able to predict future friction measurements with three to seven times better accuracy than existing benchmarks, including total quantity of contact area. Our model has no access to quality of contact, and we therefore conclude that a large portion of the interfacial state is encoded in the spatial distribution of contact, rather than its quality or quantity
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- Award ID(s):
- 2011754
- PAR ID:
- 10500407
- Publisher / Repository:
- APS
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review E
- Volume:
- 106
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 2470-0045
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.L033001
