Fundamentals of Friction and Energy Dissipation

Abstract

The paper reviews recent progresses in fundamental studies of friction. The topics include the importance for understanding wearless friction, the origin of interfacial friction, and a simple model for stick-slip motion and energy dissipation. Great efforts have been made to predict friction quantitatively, but the successes are limited to few cases where continuum mechanics or molecular dynamic simulations are able to provide numerical results.