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@ARTICLE{Persson:201822,
author = {Persson, Bo and Kovalev, A. and Gorb, S. N.},
title = {{C}ontact {M}echanics and {F}riction on {D}ry and {W}et
{H}uman {S}kin},
journal = {Tribology letters},
volume = {50},
number = {1},
issn = {1573-2711},
address = {Basel},
publisher = {Baltzer},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-04116},
pages = {17 - 30},
year = {2013},
abstract = {The surface topography of the human wrist skin is studied
using an optical method and the surface roughness power
spectrum is obtained. The Persson contact mechanics theory
is used to calculate the contact area for different
magnifications, for both dry and wet condition of the skin.
For dry skin, plastic yielding becomes important and will
determine the area of contact observed at the highest
magnification. The measured friction coefficient [M.J. Adams
et al., Tribol Lett 26:239, 2007] on both dry and wet skin
can be explained assuming that a frictional shear stress σf
≈ 15 MPa acts in the area of real contact during sliding.
This frictional shear stress is typical for sliding on
polymer surfaces, and for thin (nanometer) confined fluid
films. The big increase in the friction, which has been
observed for glass sliding on wet skin as the skin dries up,
can be explained as resulting from the increase in the
contact area arising from the attraction of capillary
bridges. This effect is predicted to operate as long as the
water layer is thinner than ∼14 μm, which is in good
agreement with the time period (of order 100 s) over which
the enhanced friction is observed (it takes about 100 s for
∼14 μm water to evaporate at $50\%$ relative humidity and
at room temperature). We calculate the dependency of the
sliding friction coefficient on the sliding speed on
lubricated surfaces (Stribeck curve). We show that sliding
of a sphere and of a cylinder gives very similar results if
the radius and load on the sphere and cylinder are
appropriately related. When applied to skin the calculated
Stribeck curve is in good agreement with experiment, except
that the curve is shifted by one velocity-decade to higher
velocities than observed experimentally. We explain this by
the role of the skin and underlying tissues viscoelasticity
on the contact mechanics},
cin = {IAS-1 / PGI-1},
ddc = {670},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-1-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-1-20110106},
pnm = {424 - Exploratory materials and phenomena (POF2-424)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-424},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000316364100003},
doi = {10.1007/s11249-012-0053-2},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201822},
}