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Detachment fronts and the onset of dynamic friction

Shmuel M. Rubinstein, Gil Cohen & Jay Fineberg

Nature 430, 1005-1009(26 August 2004)

doi:10.1038/nature02830

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Figure 1

A schematic diagram of the experimental apparatus.

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Figure 2

The net contact area of the interface between two blocks of material is proportional to the applied force.

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The onset of slip occurs via coherent detachment fronts that propagate across the interface (from left to right).

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Figure 4

The dynamics of slip, before overall sliding, take place via the interplay between four different types of coherent crack-like fronts.

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Figure 5

Detailed dynamics of the detachment process.

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