Friction has been an ever-lasting research problem, ever since the fundamental experimental observations of Leonardo Da Vinci, through the empirical laws postulated by Amontons and Couloumb and until ...

Keywords: Quintuple Friction Pendulum Isolator, Spherical Sliding Isolator, Multi-stage Adaptive Behavior, Analytical Model, Computational Model Abstract: This report describes the Quintuple Friction ...

The upper figure shows the viscoelastic toy model proposed here, characterized by only six independent parameters. Surprisingly, this simple mechanical model produces complicated system dynamics, as ...

Integrating Macroscopic and Nanoscale Information The study's goal was to shed light on the impact of surface roughness on nanometric friction processes and to incorporate this knowledge into a ...