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1500m
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2400 B.C. Use of lubricant
10
8
1500 Friction laws 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020
year
1699 Roughness studies FIG. 2. Average speed of long track speed-skating world records 共men兲
1750 Static – dynamic friction
1785 Friction formula 关data from ISU 共Ref. 14兲兴.
urge for the faster speed is unbroken and keeps athletic com- v
petitions interesting.15 As a result researchers around the slider slider
冋 册
ties of the mating surfaces.
Bowden17 proposed that the real area of contact 共Ac兲
FT = Ac ⴱ ␣c + 共1 − ␣兲 , 共5兲
between two surfaces is directly proportional to the applied h
load 共FN兲 and the softer material’s hardness 共H兲. where ␣ is the fraction of unlubricated area, c is the shear
FN strength of the solid contact, is the velocity of the slider,
Ac = . 共3兲 is the viscosity, and h is the thickness of the lubricating
H
layer.18
Accordingly, the friction coefficient can be written as However, at the same time a wetting lubricant enforces
c the build-up of capillary water bridges between the asperi-
= . 共4兲 ties, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
H
The capillary bridges act as bonds between the slider and
Thus, dry friction is characterized by the work necessary to ice surfaces and exercise a drag force on the slider.22 How-
break solid surface adhesive bonds. It depends on the applied ever, capillary bridges do not support the applied load. These
load and the hardness of the surfaces but is independent of capillary bridges act like liquid bonds and result in additional
the sliding speed.2,18,19 frictional resistance. Hence, capillary bridges should be
081101-4 Kietzig, Hatzikiriakos, and Englezos J. Appl. Phys. 107, 081101 共2010兲
capillary drag
solid-solid viscous
contact Enhanced
shearing
0.15 Conductivity
Boundary Mixed Hydrodynamic
coefficient of friction µ [-]
Ellipsometry
lubrication friction friction
Surface
0.05 Conductivity
Proton channeling
0
Nuclear magnetic
0 5 10 15 20 resonance
the underlying physics. However, in spite of the vast experi- calculation of the exact area of contact Ac. Since surfaces are
mental evidence, the scientific explanation for the presence never perfectly smooth, contact takes actually place between
of the liquidlike layer is still under debate. For a more de- a certain number of asperities. With ice being a compara-
tailed review the reader is referred to Petrenko and tively soft material the contact area of a slider on ice depends
Whitworth.20 Here some of the prevailing theories are sum- on the applied load. Furthermore, it also depends on the am-
marized briefly. bient temperature, because the ice softens with increasing
Fletcher25,26 attributed the formation of the liquidlike temperatures reaching the melting point.
layer to electrostatic interactions, whereas Lacmann and As an example consider an ice-skater 共FN = 700 N兲,
Stranski27 justified the existence of the liquidlike layer on whose skate is in contact with the ice over an area of 1
nature’s tendency to minimize the energy of a system. This ⫻ 10−4 m2 共assuming a skate length of 0.1 m, width of
theory of free surface energy minimization was further ad- 10−3 m, and only 10% of the geometric surface in contact
vanced by Dash et al.28 They claimed that a system, whose with the ice, which might already be far too optimistic兲. Ac-
free surface energy of a solid-vapor interface ␥sv is higher cordingly, the additional pressure here is 7 MPa. Based on
than the sum of the energies of the solid-liquid ␥sl and the the phase diagram of water dp / dT is approximately ⫺13.5
liquid-vapor ␥lv interface, will “lower its free energy by con- MPa/K at 0 ° C and 0.1 MPa. Therefore, a pressure increase
verting a layer of the solid to liquid” of 7 MPa will only result in a temperature change of 0.5 K.
Even with the herein assumed very low contact area pressure
␥sv ⬎ ␥sl + ␥lv . 共8兲
melting cannot contribute much to a liquid layer on ice, as
While this theory holds for several solids, experimental evi- the melting temperature of ice can only be lowered by 0.1 to
dence for ice shows that the free surface energy of “dry” ice 1 K depending on the slider. Colbeck37 illustrated that only
is in fact not larger than the combined surface energies of the 0.005% of an ice skate is in actual contact with the ice for
wetted system.29–31 pressure melting and frictional heating to contribute equally
Fukuta32 suggested subsurface pressure melting as an to the heat production. This, however, would result in high
explanation for the liquidlike layer on ice. Since water mol- wear rates and great losses in the film thickness by squeeze
ecules at the ice surface only have water molecule neighbors out of the lubricating layer, so that the friction coefficient
from one side, they experience an inward pull. This pull would be higher than observed in experiments.
exerts a pressure on the layers below. Makkonen31 has shown
that this pressure is large enough to reduce the melting point C. Frictional heating
of the ice surface layer by about 13 K. It should be noted that
even though subsurface pressure melting might contribute to On the basis of their experiments Bowden and Hughes6
the thickness of the liquidlike layer, it fails to explain its suggested that frictional heating plays a fundamental role in
presence at lower temperatures. the low friction coefficient on ice. Heat generated by the
Low-energy electron diffraction 共LEED兲 experiments frictional motion raises the temperature at the contacting
coupled with molecular dynamics simulation gave further points to the melting temperature of ice. Hence, the ice sur-
insight into the forces leading to a liquidlike layer on ice. face melts locally at the contacting asperities, whereby a
Surface molecules tend to vibrate and rotate constantly in noncontinuous melt water film is formed. This film contrib-
order to minimize dangling bonds. Kroes33 pointed out that utes to the lubrication of the slider on ice. However, not all
through the movement of the molecules the outer ice layers the energy from frictional heating is available for melting the
become partially charged. Simulations of Devlin and Buch34 ice due to energy consumption through material deformation
confirmed that the breakdown of the solid structure is indeed and energy losses by heat conduction into the ice and the
energy minimizing, since thereby the number of dangling slider. Furthermore, the authors point out that this lubricating
bonds can be reduced. Furthermore, they found that the sur- layer can become continuous, if the ambient temperature is
face is dynamically disordered. This was further explained close to the melting point of ice. They also note that the
by the results of Furukawa and Nada,35 which indicated that observed friction at 0 ° C on wet snow is higher than on dry
molecules diffuse within the two outermost layers, which snow. However, any further conclusions regarding the drag
leads to this highly disordered surface. Finally, the study of effect of capillary bridges were not drawn in this study and
Materer et al.36 revealed that at a temperature as low as 90 K as discussed previously their contribution to the coefficient
molecular vibration is so high that the outermost atoms could of friction can be significant. In conclusion, it can be said
no longer be detected by LEED. that frictional heating is the most important contributor to the
low friction on ice.
FN Ac
coefficient of friction [-]
Slotfeldt-E. et al.42 a
Reference 57.
b
Albracht et al.56 c
Reference 42.
Reference 58.
de Koning et al.13 d
Reference 13.
0.001
-30 -25 -20 -15 -10 -5 0
Temperature T [°C] the literature. In some cases such comparisons were proven
difficult as experimental findings were performed under dif-
FIG. 7. Temperature dependence of the friction coefficient. ferent operating conditions.
man factor. Studies comparing results obtained from real-life Akkok et al.56
experiments involving humans with those from a laboratory Evans et al.48
setup are most welcome. Bäurle et al.60
0.1
slope = -1/2
V. INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT PARAMETERS ON
THE FRICTION COEFFICIENT
TABLE II. Experimental parameters for the data sets plotted in Fig. 8. TABLE III. Experimental parameters for the data plotted in Fig. 9.
FN T Ac FN T Ac
Reference Slider material 共N兲 共°C兲 共mm2兲 Reference Slider material 共N兲 共°C兲 共mm2兲
Evans et al.a Mild steel rod 45.4 ⫺11.5 ⬇300 Jones et al.a Formica block 196.2 ⬇0 15 000
Marmo et al.b Ice hemisphere over steel 2.1/2.4 ⫺11.5 ⬇2 Albracht et al.b High alloy steel pin 1 ⫺7 ⬇2
Akkok et al.c Steel cylinder 75 ⫺20 ⬇50 Bäurle et al.c PE block 52 ⬇0 1000
Calabresed Steel ring 共AISI 1018兲 889.6 ⫺18 1235 Steel skate blade
Bäurle et al.e PE block 84 ⫺10 ⬇200 de Koning et al.d 共“Viking special”兲 706 ⫺4.6 ⬇400
a a
Reference 48. Reference 44.
b b
Reference 47. Reference 56.
c c
Reference 56. Reference 60.
d d
Reference 57. Reference 13.
e
Reference 60.
0.16
0.14
0.1
coefficient of friction [-]
0.12
coefficient of friction
0.10
0.08
0.06
slope = 1/2 0.04
0.01 0.02
Jones et al.44
0.00
de Koning et al.13 0.2
0.4 -16
Albracht et al.56
ve 0.60.8 -12
-14
Bäurle et al.60 loc 1.0 -10
ity 1.2 -8
-6
C]
T [°
1.4 -4
10-5 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 100 101 102 [m 1.6 -2 re
/ s] 0
ratu
velocity [m/s] Te mpe
FIG. 9. Velocity dependence of the friction coefficient 共added drag by melt FIG. 10. Three-dimensional plot of temperature and velocity dependence of
water兲. the friction coefficient 共AISI 304L, FN = 3 N and A = 147 mm2兲 共Ref. 52兲.
081101-9 Kietzig, Hatzikiriakos, and Englezos J. Appl. Phys. 107, 081101 共2010兲
0.05
a)
drodynamic can be identified in ice friction. Figure 10 shows
T= -15°C
T= -5°C the combined effect of temperature and velocity on ice fric-
coefficient of friction [-]
0.04 T= -1°C tion. These results were found with a rotational experimental
device as explained in Sec. V. A stainless steel ring AISI
304L was sliding at constant velocity against a polished ice
0.03
surface at a set temperature and controlled normal force.52
The friction coefficient initially decreases sharply with in-
0.02 creasing velocity for all temperatures; however, for this par-
ticular experimental setup a slight increase in the friction
0.01
coefficient could be noticed for velocities above 1 m/s,
which can be attributed to added drag through capillary
bridges, as explained above. For small velocities it can be
0.00
10 20 30 40 50
clearly seen that friction is dominated by different mecha-
nisms with increasing temperature. Furthermore, at around
normal force FN [N]
−4 ° C a minimum in the friction coefficient can be observed.
0.10 For temperatures below this minimum friction decreases
b) PTFE with increasing temperature due to enhanced lubrication and
Al alloy reduced solid-solid contact. Close to the melting point addi-
coefficient of friction [-]
C. Normal force FN
0.04
It is clear from the above discussion that the applied
normal force and the apparent area of contact between the
0.02 slider body and the ice surface play significant roles in the
resulting coefficient of friction.
0.00 It is generally accepted in the literature that the friction
2 4 6 8 10 coefficient of a slider against ice decreases with increasing
normal force FN [N] normal force at a given temperature and velocity 关Ref. 6
共ice-ice兲, Ref. 50 共PE-snow兲, Ref. 54 共ice-ice兲, and Refs. 56
FIG. 11. Normal force dependence of the friction coefficient. 共a兲 Data from and 58–60兴. Derjaguin59 has shown in his experiments, car-
Oksanen and Keinonen 共Ref. 54兲; 共b兲 data from Albracht et al. 共Ref. 58兲.
ried out with a steel slider, that for increasing loads at tem-
peratures close to the melting point the friction coefficient
to the melting point. Other researchers have confirmed these becomes independent of the normal force. Similarly, Ok-
findings with different slider materials on ice as illustrated in sanen and Keinonen54 have shown with their ice against ice
Fig. 9.39,44,58,60 The increase in friction with velocity can be experiments that at low temperatures 共−15 ° C兲 and slow
explained through the increase in drag forces from shearing sliding velocities 共 = 0.5 m / s兲 the coefficient of friction de-
the lubricating layer in the hydrodynamic friction regime. creases with increasing normal force. However, at tempera-
The onset of this increase is obviously largely dependent on tures close to the melting point 共−1 ° C兲, the decrease is less
the size, weight, and material of construction of the slider, as pronounced 关Fig. 11共a兲 and Table IV for experimental con-
well as the experimental temperature. Again differences in ditions兴. Likewise, Calabrese’s57 experiments with a steel
the experimental setup and operating conditions of the dif- slider and loads above 400 N resulted in a coefficient of
ferent sets of data are summarized in Table III.
In summary, it can be stated that by varying temperature 0.25
or velocity widely all friction regimes from boundary to hy-
coefficient of friction µ [-]
0.20
TABLE IV. Experimental parameters for the data plotted in Figs. 11共a兲 and
11共b兲. 0.15
T Ac
0.10
Reference Slider material 共m/s兲 共°C兲 共mm2兲
1
friction, which is entirely independent of the applied load. a)
Considering different slider materials, Akkok et al.56 have
discussion of the influence of the area of contact on the co- slope = -1/2
efficient of friction. Bäurle et al.60 explain their results by the
slope = -1/2
nature of the ice. For a very small geometric contact area the
actual contacting asperities are located closer together, so 0.1
that a larger amount of frictional energy is produced per unit
area. This results into a thicker lubricating layer per unit area
and an actual contact of close to 100%. The larger the geo-
metric area of the slider, the more the contacting points are
polished, -1.5 °C
spread out. Hence, the dominating friction regime for a very
irradiated, -1.5 °C
small slider might already be hydrodynamic for a given tem- 0.01
perature, velocity, and normal force setting, while the friction 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10
FIG. 14. AISI 304L slider with different surface structure at −7 ° C 共Ref.
52兲
F. Wettability
Bowden40 conducted experiments on the wettability of and after passing through a minimum the subsequent in-
different materials and found that friction was highest for crease兲, the irradiated slider’s coefficient of friction continu-
surfaces that wet easily, especially close to the melting point. ously decreases with increasing sliding speed. Accordingly,
This can be explained by the enhanced build-up of capillary surface wettability has an important role in ice friction espe-
bridges between the sliding surfaces, which becomes espe- cially close to the melting point. Wettability being a material
cially important in the mixed and hydrodynamic friction re- property and also a function of surface roughness is a sig-
gime. However, it should be considered that a change in nificant factor to consider when conducting ice friction ex-
hydrophobicity was only achieved by using a different ma- periments.
terial. Therefore, the impact of hydrophobicity cannot be in-
vestigated independently of other material inherent param- G. Surface structure
eters, such as thermal conductivity and material hardness.
Itagaki et al.43 found in their experiments that their
Furthermore, as was pointed out before, roughness and ma-
samples with polished grooves in sliding direction showed
terial surface structure play an important role, as well. How-
similarly low friction as highly polished sliders. In our recent
ever, no reference was made to the surface roughness of
work we examined the influence of surface structure more
different materials. Colbeck22 recognized the importance of
closely and found that for the same roughness value Ra the
capillary forces on snow friction. He has found that snow
orientation of polishing marks plays a significant role on ice
grains that do not support the slider’s load directly are
friction.52 Experiments were conducted on a rotational ex-
bonded to the slider surface by capillary bridges, whose for-
perimental device as explained in Sec. V with two rings
mation is favored through increased melt water production
made from the same material, both polished to a Ra value of
with increasing sliding speed. Further investigations of the
600 nm. The difference in the two rings, however, is that one
adhesion between water and static rough, hydrophilic and
shows random polishing marks in all directions, while the
hydrophobic surfaces have shown that hydrophobicity
other shows almost concentric grooves, which correspond
clearly reduces the capillary bonding.64,65
Recently, we have conducted ice friction experiments
0.7
with stainless steels sliders, which were initially hydrophilic RH = 10 %
but were rendered hydrophobic through femtosecond laser 0.6 RH = 30 %
irradiation.52,66 Without changing material parameters, such RH = 50 %
coefficient of friction [-]
with the sliding direction. Sliders with random marks show influence of thermal conductivity on ice friction in their ex-
the typical dependence of the coefficient of friction on ve- periments with different materials. Generally, as pointed out
locity with ⬀ −1/2, as also discussed before 共Fig. 14兲. A for wettability investigations, using different materials for
minimum in the coefficient of friction can be observed. The the analysis of thermal conductivity cannot show the isolated
coefficient of friction of the slider with the concentric effect of this parameter on ice friction. Using materials of
grooves, however, stays almost constant and independent of different thermal conductivity always brings along a change
sliding velocity. The far lower coefficient of friction at low in other material parameters such as wettability and material
velocities of the slider with grooves in sliding direction is hardness, too. However, all analytical models on ice friction,
explained by ice surface asperities running smoothly in these as discussed below, include thermal conductivity as a major
concentric grooves and thereby causing less interlocking component in describing the melt water film thickness and
than the random polishing marks of the other slider type. therewith the resulting coefficient of friction.
With increasing speed, however, no significant changes
are observed in the friction coefficient for the slider rings
VI. ICE FRICTION MODELS
with concentric grooves. It seems like the decrease in friction
from enhanced lubrication is immediately balanced off by From the above discussion of the isolated effect of single
added capillary drag of melt water being trapped in the factors on ice friction it became clear that the different pa-
grooves. Since our experiments are carried out with a ring, rameters interact significantly. This interdependence is one of
the melt water has no easy way to escape the concentric the reasons that complicate the modeling of ice friction
grooves. When the amount of melt water increases and can across the different friction regimes. Nonetheless, there has
no longer be retained within the size of the grooves at the been a major effort to model ice friction and the most inter-
applied normal force, it is squeezed out. Accordingly, re- esting of those models are briefly introduced here.
duced asperity interaction through melt water and increased Evans et al.48 developed the first theoretical explanation
capillary drag seem to balance out each other with increasing for the dependence of the friction coefficient on frictional
velocity. On this basis it is understandable, why skis are heating. They defined the total frictional force FT in terms of
commonly structured with V-shaped, diagonal, or linear heat generated per unit displacement. Accordingly, the total
grinding patterns, which serve to channel the lubricating melt frictional heat is described as the sum of three heat compo-
water and thereby reduce capillary drag.22 nents.
FT = FS + FI + F M . 共9兲
H. Relative humidity RH
These are the heat conducted away from the interface
Calabrese57 performed friction experiments with steel through the slider material FS, the amount of heat which
sliding against ice at different relative humidity conditions. diffuses into the ice FI, and the heat that remains for melting
His results are shown in Fig. 15. the surface F M . By assuming that the surface is at the melting
Relative humidity has a strong influence on the onset of temperature of ice and taking the length of contact from their
the sliding movement. The higher the humidity, the more experimental observations, this results into the following
lubricated is the sliding interface and the lower the frictional equation for the friction coefficient
resistance. Unfortunately, no further experimental data exist
for the influence of humidity at higher temperatures. Possibly AS共Tm − T0兲 B共Tm − T0兲
= + + M , 共10兲
at higher temperatures, where a thicker liquid layer exists, F N FN冑
humidity is expected to have a minor effect on the coefficient
of friction. However, this remains to be seen experimentally. with Tm and T0 being the melting and the ambient tempera-
ture, respectively, S being the thermal conductivity of the
slider, being the sliding velocity, A being a constant de-
I. Thermal conductivity
pending on the actual contact area, and B being a constant
Applying the frictional heating theory to ice friction, depending on the actual contact area, thermal conductivity
Bowden and Hughes6 performed experiments on the influ- and diffusivity of ice. The authors point out that it is not
ence of the slider’s thermal conductivity on the friction co- possible to calculate the contribution of the melt friction co-
efficient. They compared the friction coefficient of a hollow efficient M directly but an upper limit can be derived from
ski with a copper surface to the one of the same ski construc- experiments. Furthermore, from experimental and theoretical
tion filled with mercury. Air has a thermal conductivity of considerations they find the thickness of the lubricating layer
about 0.025 W/mK and mercury of 8 W/mK. The friction of to be smaller than the combined surface roughness, which
the mercury filled ski was higher compared to the hollow air indicates an overall mixed friction regime. Since the slider
filled ski. Even though no further details are given about the constantly moves over fresh ice, the temperature gradient
exact experimental conditions, this result implies that the ⌬Tice 共=兩Tcontact − Tice兩; absolute value of the temperature dif-
friction of a good thermal conductor is higher because less ference between the contacting interface and the bulk ice兲 is
heat is available at the surface to melt the ice. Further ex- generally greater than the one for the slider ⌬Tslider
periments carried out by Itagaki et al.43 with steels of differ- 共=兩Tslider − Tcontact兩; absolute value of the temperature differ-
ent thermal conductivity have also shown this relationship ence between the bulk slider material and the contacting in-
between thermal conductivity and the friction coefficient. terface兲, except for the case of a very conductive slider ma-
However, Albracht et al.58 were not able to find a significant terial. Their experiments with copper, Perspex™, and steel
081101-13 Kietzig, Hatzikiriakos, and Englezos J. Appl. Phys. 107, 081101 共2010兲
indicate that 40% to 60% of the frictional heat are conducted melting the ice. The velocity dependency of the friction co-
away from the surface through the slider independent of the efficient is then described by ⬀ 1 / 冑 in the model. If the
ambient temperature. The author’s experiments have shown temperature gradients for the ice ⌬Tice and the slider ⌬Tslider
that the measured friction coefficient depends on the applied are both small, which means that the ambient temperature is
normal force according to ⬀ FN−共1/3兲. This disagreement with close to 0 ° C, friction is governed by viscous shearing and
Eq. 共10兲 results from the fact that the model 关Eq. 共10兲兴 does melting of the ice 关the second part of Eq. 共12兲兴. The model
not fully describe the dependence of the actual contact area gives a velocity dependency of ⬀ 冑 in this case. Further-
on load. more, the authors point out that in the mixed region between
The experimental dependency of the friction coefficient the two cases discussed above the strength of the effects is
on velocity at −11.5 ° C seemed different at higher and lower determined by the velocity. At low velocities, thermal con-
speeds. For low velocities the friction coefficient corre- ductivity plays the greater role. At high velocities the time
sponds to ⬀ 1 / indicating that heat conduction into the for heat conduction is reduced, resulting in more heat avail-
slider FS dominates, whereas for high velocities FI takes over able for melting the ice. Even though the model indicates
and ⬀ 1 / 冑 explains the experimental results more closely. increased frictional resistance close to the melting tempera-
The results indicate that with increasing slider speed other ture, it does not mention a potential contribution of capillary
mechanisms gain importance for friction on ice. However, drag forces. Furthermore, energy losses due to wear mecha-
other mechanisms, such as fluid mechanics of the squeezed nisms and squeeze out of the lubricating layer are ignored in
lubricating film, were not included in the theory. Another the model. However, the proposed relationships between the
interesting observation is that wear increased greatly above sliding velocity and the resulting friction coefficient corre-
−2 ° C with significant softening of the ice. The authors point spond reasonably well to experimental results, as shown in
out that wear will generally be higher on new fresh ice than this paper’s Sec. V B.
observed in their studies, where a rod formed a track on an In contrast to the analytical models above, Akkok et al.56
ice cylinder. However, the theory does not take energy losses do not consider the melting temperature as an upper bound
by wear processes into account. for the surface temperature but rather the softening tempera-
Oksanen and Keinonen54 further elaborated this model. ture of ice. They argue that after reaching the softening tem-
With the assumption that the lubricating layer is the main perature frictional motion wears the surface so much that the
origin of frictional resistance, the authors combine the theory originally touching materials are no longer in contact. This is
of Evans et al.48 with hydrodynamic friction. Based on the important, since through this kind of wear process no energy
assumption that the frictional motion results in a nonuniform is consumed in the phase change but all heat is conducted
heat transfer, they derive a model for the friction coefficient. away. The heat is assumed to be only conducted into the ice
The frictional heat Q f generated by the motion during a cer- and not through the slider. The following model was devel-
tain time interval b / is oped,
b
Q f = F N ,
共11兲
冉
are the temperature at the contact and the ice, respectively.
n1/4A3/4
c 1 1 This model and further experiments confirm the results of
= 关⌬TI共IcII兲1/2 + ⌬TS共ScSS兲1/2兴
FN 2 共2兲1/2 Evans et al.48 and Oksanen and Keinonen54 with ⬀ 1 / 冑.
+ 再 1
8
关⌬TI共IcII兲1/2 + ⌬TS共ScSS兲1/2兴2
Furthermore, they emphasize that the velocity dependency
changes at high temperatures, when hydrodynamic friction
冎冊
dominates. Concerning the dependency on load, their model
1/2 gives ⬀ 1 / 冑4 FN for partial contact, while the regression
+ 0 h 0 , 共12兲 analysis on their experimental data gives ⬀ 1 / 冑FN. The re-
sults of Evans et al.48 lie in between these two. This variance
where n stands for the number of contacting points, Ac for indicates again that effects like the squeeze of the lubricating
the actual area of contact, I and S for the thermal conduc- layer might play an important role here.
tivity, cI and cS for the specific heat capacity, and I and S The analytical models so far recognize heat conduction
for the density of ice or the slider material, respectively, 0 and friction dominated by viscous shearing as two extreme
for the density of and 0 for the viscosity of water. cases in the determination of the overall frictional resistance.
Here, the authors identify two regions with different re- However, other important mechanisms are left on the side.
lationships between the friction coefficient and the velocity. Squeeze flow, for example, is not considered, which de-
In the case of a great temperature gradient for the ice ⌬Tice creases the thickness of the lubricating layer at high loads
thermal conductivity dominates over viscous shearing 关the and fast speeds.
first part of Eq. 共12兲兴. The same is true when the thickness of Stiffler61,67 included squeeze as a type of wear in his
the lubricating layer is very small, suggesting that the pro- model. He derived the following model for the friction coef-
duced heat is mainly conducted away and not available for ficient for a conducting surface:
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