TY - JOUR AU - Persson, B. N. J. TI - Influence of frozen capillary waves on contact mechanics JO - Wear VL - 264 SN - 0043-1648 CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] PB - Elsevier Science M1 - PreJuSER-2783 PY - 2008 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - Free surfaces of liquids exhibit thermally excited (capillary) surface waves. We show that the surface roughness which results from capillary waves when a glassy material is cooled below the glass transition temperature can have a large influence on the contact mechanics between the solids. The theory suggest a new explanation for puzzling experimental results [L. Bureau, T. Baumberger and C. Caroli, European Physical Journal E 19, 163 (2006)] about the dependence of the frictional shear stress on the load for contact between a glassy polymer lens and flat substrates. It also lend support for a recently developed contact mechanics theory. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.v. All rights reserved. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000255117700002 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.wear.2006.10.028 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/2783 ER -