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Research Papers: Contact Mechanics

# Experimental Investigation of Energy Dissipation in Presliding Spherical Contacts Under Varying Normal and Tangential LoadsPUBLIC ACCESS

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Ahmet Deniz Usta

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
1513 University Avenue,
e-mail: austa@wisc.edu

Sohan Shinde

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
1513 University Avenue,
e-mail: sshinde@wisc.edu

Melih Eriten

Department of Mechanical Engineering,
1513 University Avenue,
e-mail: eriten@engr.wisc.edu

1Corresponding author.

Contributed by the Tribology Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF TRIBOLOGY. Manuscript received October 3, 2016; final manuscript received February 13, 2017; published online June 7, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Liming Chang.

J. Tribol 139(6), 061402 (Jun 07, 2017) (7 pages) Paper No: TRIB-16-1304; doi: 10.1115/1.4036183 History: Received October 03, 2016; Revised February 13, 2017

## Abstract

Interfacial damping in assembled structures is difficult to predict and control since it depends on numerous system parameters such as elastic mismatch, roughness, contact geometry, and loading profiles. Most recently, phase difference between normal and tangential force oscillations has been shown to have a significant effect on interfacial damping. In this study, we conduct microscale (asperity-scale) experiments to investigate the influence of magnitude and phase difference of normal and tangential force oscillations on the energy dissipation in presliding spherical contacts. Our results show that energy dissipation increases with increasing normal preload fluctuations and phase difference. This increase is more prominent for higher tangential force fluctuations, thanks to larger frictional slip along the contact interface. We also show that the energy dissipation and tangential fluctuations are related through a power law. The power exponents we identify from the experiments reveal that contacts deliver a nonlinear damping for all normal preload fluctuation amplitudes and phase differences investigated. This is in line with the damping uncertainties and nonlinearities observed in structural dynamics community.

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## Introduction

Interfacial damping arises from frictional shear and slip at the mating surfaces. Frictional energy dissipation is difficult to predict because frictional interactions exhibit high degree of variability, nonlinearity, and uncertainty. Lack of adequate understanding of interfacial damping affects the predictive modeling of assembled structures subjected to vibrations.

One of the main factors that frictional dissipation depends on is the loading conditions imposed on the contacts. Among all possible loading scenarios related to this factor, the case of constant normal load and oscillating tangential force has been studied most extensively [14] and it was shown that the magnitude of energy dissipation increases with the amplitude of oscillations in tangential force as expected from a contact dominated by frictional slip. In addition to how much energy it dissipates, a contact zone is also heavily characterized by the relationship between its energy dissipation and the maximum applied stress. Lazan [5] in his seminal work proposed a simple power-law relation between the maximum applied stress $σ$ and the dissipated energy $ΔW$ to predict the amount of damping at a particular vibration level; i.e., Display Formula

(1)$ΔW∼σn$

This power-law relation holds for both material and interfacial damping [3,6]. Power-law exponents closer to 2 suggest linear damping because in a structure with linear compliance, maximum strain energy scales as the square of the applied stress, and since the damping can be regarded as the ratio of the energy dissipation to the maximum strain energy; the damping scales as $σn−2$, and thus becomes independent of loading if $n=2.$ Therefore, the deviation of $n$ from two signals the degree of nonlinearity in damping.

Mindlin et al. in 1952 [1] proposed the first analytical solution for the interfacial damping. This study showed that under a constant normal load and small amplitude of tangential oscillations, the energy dissipated by frictional slip scaled with the cube of the maximum tangential force, i.e., power-law exponent, $n=3.$ The same analytical solution predicts power-law exponents higher than 3 for larger oscillations. Starting with Johnson’s [2], and Goodman and Brown’s [3] experiments, theoretical estimation of power-law exponents 3 or higher were never observed in measurements of interfacial damping. Experiments with various sample geometries, materials, and instruments the power-law exponents consistently ranged between 2.2 and 2.8 [4,79].

## Problem Statement

In this study, we investigate the effects of normal and tangential fluctuations, and the phase difference between those fluctuations on frictional dissipation in presliding contacts. In particular, we conduct experiments on a contact configuration featuring a rigid sphere-on-deformable half space. As shown in Fig. 1, variable normal $(P)$ and tangential loads $(Q)$ are imposed on this contact. Mean normal load causes tip to penetrate into the sample to a depth of $d,$ and forms a circular contact area with radius, $a.$ Normal load fluctuations following the mean preloading are chosen smaller than 30% of the mean preload to mimic sustained structural vibrations without significant loss of preload. The tangential loading is imposed by tangential displacements fluctuating around zero mean. Fluctuations in tangential displacement are chosen to ensure presliding contact conditions. Mechanical energy losses as measured by the load–displacement response of the contact are used to monitor frictional dissipation. The details of the test samples, experimental setup, loading parameters, and processing of raw data are given in Sec. 3. The results and discussions are presented in Sec. 4. The paper ends with a list of findings and conclusions in Sec. 5.

## Experiments

###### Tested Samples.

The surfaces tested are cut from a 0.5 mm-thick polyimide film and used as received from the supplier (UPILEX). Polyimides are used safely in extreme thermomechanical and chemical conditions, thanks to their high glass transition temperature and low creep properties [21]. Practical uses of polyimide films include electronic circuits, wire insulations, and composite components in aero-engines, turbine blades, and launch vehicles [2225]. We elect to test polyimide samples for several reasons. First of all, polyimide films show linear isotropic response in elastic loading cases [26,27]. Also, we will demonstrate that polyimide exhibit negligible viscoelasticity at the loading rates used in our experiments. Those properties enable us to compare the experimental observations to known analytical solutions of elasticity. Second, polyimide is inert to rigid diamond probes, and thus adhesion is negligible compared to deformation forces. Therefore, frictional slip dominates the interactions between the sample surfaces and probe. Lastly, polyimide delivers more compliant response compared to metals, and thus tangential displacements in presliding regime are comparable to contact radii (∼a few micrometer). Our presliding experiments can resolve and control the tangential displacements on the order of microns with significantly better resolution than nanoscale slips observed at metallic contacts.

Prior to presliding experiments, ultrasonic cleaning with acetone bath is applied to all polyimide samples. After cleaning, the samples are glued to metallic pucks and mounted on the triboindenter (TI950 by Hysitron, Inc., Minneapolis, MN), and roughness of the test surfaces is measured by scanning probe microscopy (SPM). The SPM imaging load, size, and frequency are 2 μN, 10 μm × 10 μm, and 1 Hz, respectively.

Figure 2 shows a representative SPM image of the surface heights of a tested region. The root-mean-square (RMS) and peak-to-valley roughness measured in tested regions vary around 15 and 100 nm, respectively. As will be presented, the mean preload used in the experiments causes penetration depths on the order of 100 nm, and contact radii on the order of 2 μm. The effect of roughness on the indentation response of a spherical contact is investigated elsewhere [28] and the main parameter dictating the amount of deviation is found to be the ratio of RMS roughness to penetration depth. Based on the RMS roughness and penetration depth values, this ratio is around 0.15 in our experiments. In terms of maximum contact pressure, this leads to 12–17% of deviation from the Hertzian theory, whereas the deviation is around 10% for contact radius. In addition, the difference between the surface heights of the contact zone (a 5 μm × 5 μm area in the center) measured before and after experiments (Fig. 2(c)) shows that the change in surface heights range between 4.5 nm and −6.4 nm, which is comparable to the asperity size. This suggests that the loading conditions used in the experiments cause predominantly elastic deformations and the extent of plasticity, if there is any, did not go beyond the asperity scale. Negative values for the height difference between the two images can be attributed to thermal drift, the difference between the two contact detection points preceding SPM imaging sequences or nanoscale debris that is swept out of the contact zone. Spatial matching of the coordinate systems of the before and after images was carried out by offsetting the latter along the x and y directions. Therefore, the calculated differences are also inevitably subjected to some error from rotational mismatch.

###### Presliding Experiments.

After roughness measurements, presliding contact experiments are performed under ambient conditions (26 °C, 37% RH) by using the nanoscratch module of the triboindenter. A spheroconical diamond indenter with a tip radius of 50 μm is first pressed on the polyimide samples. After the initial preloading, normal loading and tangential displacement fluctuations with various amplitudes and phase differences are imposed on the contact. The normal loads and tangential displacements used are expressed as Display Formula

(2)$P(t)=P0+P1(ω t)$
Display Formula
(3)$x(t)=x1(ω t−ϕ)$

where $P0$ is the normal preload, $P1$ and $x1$ are the fluctuations in the normal load and tangential displacement, $w$ is the fluctuation frequency, and $ϕ$ is the phase difference. As shown in Fig. 3, the fluctuations $P1$ and $x1$ are chosen as triangular waves with $w=π/10.$ The mean normal load, $P0$ is set to 1 mN, and the fluctuation amplitudes, $P1$ are adjusted as the 0%, 10%, 20%, and 30% of the mean preload. Note that the first of those fluctuation conditions corresponds to the constant normal load case, which is heavily studied in the literature. For each normal loading condition, the tangential displacement fluctuations are increased from 70 to 120 nm in four equal increments. To ensure presliding conditions, we determined the displacements at the sliding inception by unidirectional sliding experiments on polyimide under a normal load of 1000 μN. As shown in Fig. 4, the tangential displacement (δT) of 60 nm is significantly lower than the displacement at the onset of macrosliding.

###### Cyclic Indentation Tests.

The mechanical energy loss measured by the hysteresis (friction) loops can be attributed to frictional slip, interface failure, viscoelastic losses, plasticity, and/or surface damage (fracture, wear, etc.) of the polyimide samples. The roughness maps of the tested surfaces before and after presliding tests suggest no noticeable plasticity or damage (see Figs. 2(a) and 2(b)). To identify the relative contribution of viscoelastic losses, we conduct cyclic indentation tests using the triboindenter at the fluctuation frequency used in the presliding experiments (0.05 Hz). Normal loading imposed in these tests is identical to the profile depicted in Fig. 3(a). The phase differences between the normal load and displacement responses are used to monitor the degree of viscous response, and viscoelasticity-born losses. Note that the elastic mismatch between the probe and the samples also causes frictional slip during normal load fluctuations. However, the mismatch-induced slip is expected to be very limited compared to the slip caused by tangential loading. Therefore, phase difference obtained by the cyclic indentation tests can reveal the relative importance of viscoelasticity when compared to the phase differences observed in the hysteresis (friction) loops.

## Results and Discussion

Next, we quantify the adhesive strength between the probe and the polyimide samples. Figure 7 shows a representative load versus displacement response in adhesion tests. Note that zero penetration depth corresponds to the undeformed sample surface. In adhesion tests, the probe first approaches to the sample surface, and then penetrates up to 140 nm. This penetration depth is chosen to yield similar normal loads (870–950 μN) as in presliding experiments. Unloading begins immediately after the maximum penetration depth is reached.

As evident from Fig. 7, the unloading response follows the loading curve with a minute hysteresis. As discussed in cyclic indentation tests, this is thanks to predominantly elastic loading. At the retracting phase, the forces become tensile, and reach a maximum value referred as pull-off force, after which the contact between the probe and the sample is lost momentarily. The pull-off forces obtained in those tests are on the order of 1 μN. (inset figure in Fig. 7). This range is negligibly small compared to the mean preload, and so are the energy losses due to adhesive interactions.

The low adhesive strength that we measured is expected as similar observations are made for adhesion of untreated polyimide films to various metallic and ceramic substrates [32]. In line with this, additional chemical (adhesive promoters) and mechanical (roughness) treatments are required to enhance adhesion of polyimide films in multilayer composites [33]. In addition to the inherently low adhesive characteristics of polyimide, roughness might have contributed to the measured adhesive strength. In order to determine the existence of such an effect, we also estimated the surface energy of polyimide by the JKR theory [34] Display Formula

(4)$Fpull-off=1.5π ΔγR$

where $Fpull-off$ is the pull-off force, $Δγ$ is the surface energy, and $R$ is the combined contact radius. This equation returns a surface energy value of 4.24 mJ/m2 when we use 1 μN (from Fig. 7) and 50 μm for $Fpull-off$ and $R$, respectively. This value is significantly small compared to 40 mJ/m2, the surface energy value reported for polyimide [35]. This significant difference confirms that the effect of roughness in our adhesion tests is influential. Regardless of the mechanisms leading to low adhesive strength, we can eliminate adhesive interactions from the list of possible contributors to the mechanical losses, leaving only frictional slip as the dominant contributor.

###### Identification of Elastic Properties.

As evident from the roughness measurements before and after presliding experiments, elastic deformations are expected to dominate the contact response. To verify this and identify the Young’s modulus of the polyimide samples, we analyze the initial normal loading portion of the presliding tests where the contact is established and loaded up to a mean normal load of $P0$ (Fig. 3(a)). According to the elastic (Hertzian) contact theory, the normal load, $P$ depends on the normal penetration, $δ$ nonlinearly in a spherical contact as Display Formula

(5)$P=43E*δ3/2R$

where $E*=[(1−υ12)/E1+(1−υ22)/E2]−1$ and $R=(1/R1+1/R2)−1$ are the equivalent Young’s modulus and radius of the contact pair, and $E1,2$, $υ1,2$, and $R1,2$ are the Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and radius of contacting materials 1 and 2, respectively. When the material properties and geometry of the spheroconical diamond probe given in Table 1 are inserted in Eq. (5), the only unknowns are the elastic properties of the polyimide film. The literature reports the Poisson’s ratio of 0.34 for polyimides. With those values, we estimate the Young’s modulus of the polyimide films by the best fits to the normal load versus penetration depth graphs shown in Fig. 8. This procedure is applied to the initial loading stage of all the presliding experiments ($n=112$), and the Young’s modulus is found to range from 1.6 to 2.9 GPa, with a mean of 2.4 GPa. The Young’s moduli range we identify agrees reasonably well with the values reported in the literature [3638]. The analytical predictions of Eq. (5) with the minimum, maximum, and mean values of Young’s moduli are also overlaid on the experimental data in Fig. 8. The match between the analytical curves and the experimental data is quite significant beyond ∼20 nm of penetration depth, whereas below that level, experimental data exhibit a slightly smaller slope than 3/2. This is in support of the previously presented argument that once the penetration depth exceeds the RMS roughness of the surface, the indentation curves gradually converge to the Hertzian response. This also agrees with the use of the normal loading portion of the tests in estimating Young’s modulus as an alternative to the Oliver–Pharr method.

For each experiment, we determined the residual normal displacement upon complete unloading. Then, we calculated the total thermal drift by multiplying the thermal drift rate measured and total test duration. The mean and standard deviation values were calculated to be 5.84 nm and 5.4 nm for residual normal displacements and 26.98 nm and 11.39 nm for thermal drift values. This shows that experimentally observed residual normal displacements lie within the uncertainty of thermal drifts. Hence, we conclude that the extent of plasticity is minimal.

We will use the elastic properties identified experimentally in the analytical interpretation of the presliding experiments in Sec. 4.3.

###### Presliding Experiments and Energy Dissipation.

We conduct a total of 112 presliding experiments to study the effect of loading fluctuations and phase differences on the frictional dissipation. Those experiments can be grouped into three major categories according the loading conditions: (i) no normal load fluctuation (Fig. 9(a)); (ii) normal and tangential load fluctuations with low phase (LP) difference (Fig. 9(b)); and (iii) normal and tangential load fluctuations with high phase (HP) difference (Fig. 9(c)). Loading condition in Fig. 9(a) is extensively studied in the literature both experimentally and analytically. We will apply this loading condition on the polyimide samples to validate the experiments against analytical solutions. Loading conditions in Figs. 9(b) and 9(c) differ from each other by the phase difference between the normal and tangential fluctuations. As evident from the loading curves, Fig. 9(b) approximates in-phase linear loading (i.e., oblique loading), whereas the loading in Fig. 9(c) causes an elliptical loading in $P−Q$ plane. Those extreme cases provide sufficiently large contrast between loading conditions, and thus enable us to study the effect of phase difference on frictional energy losses.

Figure 10 shows the hysteresis loops obtained from the eighth cycle of loading for the constant normal load case under four different maximum tangential fluctuations. The areas inside those loops will be studied as the frictional losses at the steady state.

Figure 11 shows the frictional dissipation as a function of maximum tangential load for all testing configurations. Starting with the constant normal load case, we observe that higher tangential loads cause larger frictional dissipation. This is expected since higher tangential loads lead to larger frictional slip. Frictional slip and associated energy dissipation in spherical contacts under cyclic loading conditions are worked out by Mindlin and Deresiewicz [10], yielding the following expression for the energy loss:

Display Formula

(6)$ΔW=9μ2P02G*10a{1−[1−QmaxμP0] 5/3−5Qmax6μP0[1+(1−QmaxμP0)2/3]}$

where $G*=(2−υ1)/G1$ and $G1$ and $υ1$ are the shear modulus and Poisson’s ratio of the test material, respectively; $a$ is the contact radius, and $μ$ is the coefficient of friction of the test surface.

To estimate the energy dissipation using Eq. (6), we need the material properties, contact radius, loading conditions, and the coefficient of friction, all of which we discussed in Secs. 3.2 and 4.2 except for the last one. We conduct sliding friction tests using the same experimental procedure as in presliding tests but with larger tangential displacements to obtain the coefficient of friction of polyimide samples. Upon five trials, we find the mean value of coefficient of friction of 0.2, and substituting the elastic properties listed in Table 1 and contact radius estimated from the experimental data using the Hertzian assumption in to Eq. (6), we estimate the energy dissipation predictions. We calculated the shear modulus of polyimide ($G1$) using $G=E/2(1+υ)$. Since the experimental Young’s moduli of polyimide varied across a range of values between 1.6 GPa and 2.9 GPa, we calculated minimum and maximum shear moduli corresponding to the same measured range, and plotted Eq. (6) for these two values separately. The band formed by these two theoretical curves as presented in Fig. 11 correlates reasonably well with the measured frictional dissipations, confirming the frictional slip as the major dissipation mechanism observed in the experiments. Among all the cases tested, high preload fluctuation with HP difference between tangential loads yields the maximum frictional dissipation. As the preload fluctuations decrease, so does the energy dissipation, and thus, constant normal load case yields the minimum frictional dissipation. For a fixed maximum tangential load, one can alter the frictional dissipation by a factor of two by adjusting the fluctuation amplitudes and phase difference. Albeit being subtler, we also find that the HP difference cases consistently dissipate more energy than the LP difference cases. Those observations are in line with the analytical solutions of Putignano et al. [15] and Patil and Eriten’s numerical results [39] stating that maximum frictional dissipation occurs when the normal and tangential components are approximately 90 deg out of phase. Similar conclusions are also made earlier for contacts under more complicated loading conditions that could result in sliding and separation [13]. The influence of normal fluctuation amplitudes and phase difference on the frictional dissipation vanishes as the maximum tangential fluctuation amplitude decreases, and thus, all the dissipation values cluster closely as shown around $Qmax=90μN.$ However, when the fluctuations are high, the differences are more pronounced, and controlling dissipation with both fluctuation amplitudes and phase difference is possible. Remarkably, frictional dissipations can be tuned over an order of magnitude from low to high amplitude vibrations when phase difference is increased from low to high; i.e., the triangles at around $Qmax=90μN$ to circles at around $Qmax=150μN.$

Furthermore, we estimated the dissipation due to normal loading over the last fluctuation cycle of 20 s (i.e., starting from P0 to P1 rising up to P0 + P1 and falling back to P0 − P1). The mean and standard deviation values of the residual normal displacements from this mini normal loading/unloading cycle are 1.49 nm and 0.4 nm, respectively, whereas the same parameters are calculated to be 3.34 nm and 1.55 nm for thermal drift that occurs over the same cycle. Since the residual displacements are lower than thermal drift, the energy dissipation due to normal load fluctuations around the mean preload of P0 is unquantifiable. Our presliding experiments, however, are conducted under tangential displacements that are an order of magnitude higher than thermal drift. Therefore, frictional energy loss is expected to be quantifiably larger than drift and viscoelasticity-related losses as presented in Figs. 10 and 11.

Another possible source of energy dissipation in normal loading is elastic mismatch between the probe and the polyimide samples. Due to elastic mismatch, normal and tangential tractions are coupled; i.e., normal loading causes shear tractions around edges of a spherical contact, and shear tractions influence normal displacements and thus contact area and normal tractions. Munisamy et al. [40] showed that when the product of elastic mismatch parameter (Dundurs constant) and friction coefficient is less than 0.1, the effects of mismatch on contact parameters and thus dissipation can be neglected. In our experiments, that product attains a value of 0.048 (Dundurs constant ∼0.24 × friction coefficient ∼ 0.2). Therefore, the contribution of mismatch on the dissipation observed in the normal loading cycles is expected to be negligible.

###### Power-Law Exponents.

Next, we estimate the power-law exponents giving the dependence of energy dissipation on the maximum tangential load; i.e., the exponent n in $ΔW∼Qmaxn$. Note that for a given loading condition, we find the best fits to 16 sets of energy loss and $Qmax.$ Table 2 lists the estimated power-law exponents for seven loading conditions tested. The power-law exponent is 2.5 for the constant normal load case. Note that this case was treated analytically by Mindlin and Deresiewicz [10], and power-law exponents of 3 were found at the small vibration approximation. For larger vibrations, the power-law exponents were predicted even higher than 3. However, experimental studies featuring constant normal loading reported power-law exponents ranging from 2.2 to 2.8 [2,8]. Our results fall into this observed range. Spatial, temporal, and load-dependent variations in coefficient of friction, plasticity, and roughness are possible reasons for the mismatch between the analytical and experimental power-law exponents. In our study, we control the loading conditions, contact geometry, and surface roughness to suppress the effects of plasticity and roughness. However, the spatial and temporal variations in frictional behavior, which links normal and tangential tractions over the contact area, might still be influential. For the fluctuating normal load cases, the power-law exponents vary between 2.3 and 2.7 with higher phase differences consistently leading to lower power-law exponents. This is in close agreement with the analytical [15] and numerical [39] observations made in the literature. Both works state that power-law exponents closer to 2 are attainable with 90 deg out-of-phase normal and tangential fluctuations. Besides, Kim and Jang investigated an axisymmetric Hertzian contact problem under cyclic loading and obtained a power-law exponent of 2 [41]. Although the trends in our experiments correlate well with the theoretical and numerical predictions, we could not obtain power-law exponents close to 2 with the loading configurations we tested. Note that any deviation from two introduces nonlinear damping into a dynamic system. Therefore, our experiments assert that nonlinear damping is inevitable in an assembled structure containing frictional contacts even when the loading conditions, contact geometry, and roughness are controlled within a reasonable degree of accuracy.

## Conclusions

The relationship between frictional energy dissipation in spherical contacts and two main loading parameters has been investigated: magnitude of and phase difference between fluctuations in normal and tangential loads. 0%, 10%, 20%, and 30% of normal load fluctuations around a mean preload of 1000 μN and four different maximum tangential loads covering the range between ∼90 μN and ∼150 μN were used in two different phase difference scenarios, i.e., ∼0 deg and ∼90 deg. Pull-off and cyclic normal loading experiments conducted prior to the presliding experiments verified that energy losses observed in the presliding experiments can be fully attributed to frictional dissipation. Major findings of the study include:

• Energy dissipation have been shown to increase with increasing tangential force fluctuations primarily because of larger frictional slip;

• The maximum dissipation values were observed in the large normal and tangential load fluctuations and HP difference, whereas the minimum dissipation was obtained under constant normal load and small tangential fluctuations;

• For the same tangential loading and phase difference, energy dissipation increases as normal load fluctuations increase;

• As the maximum tangential load increases, the range of energy dissipation values observed for different normal loading and phase difference scenarios widens making it possible to tune energy dissipation over a wide range;

• In contrast to the theoretical predictions of 3, the power-law exponents linking the tangential fluctuation magnitudes to energy dissipations were found to be 2.49 for the constant normal loading case. Additionally, none of the loading cases studied delivered power-law exponents close to 2; i.e., nonlinear damping prevailed for all the contact cases investigated.

• For the same normal and tangential loading parameters, energy dissipation increased and power-law exponents decreased with increasing phase difference.

## Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. NSF CMMI-1462870.

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Johnson, K. L. , Kendall, K. , and Roberts, A. D. , 1971, “ Surface Energy and the Contact of Elastic Solids,” Proc. R. Soc. London A, 324(1558), pp. 301–313.
Troughton, M. J. , 2008, Handbook of Plastics Joining: A Practical Guide, William Andrew, Norwich, NY.
Maseeh, F. , Schmidt, M. A. , Allen, M. G. , and Senturia, S. D. , 1988, “ Calibrated Measurements of Elastic Limit, Modulus, and the Residual Stress of Thin Films Using Micromachined Suspended Structures,” IEEE Solid State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (SOLSEN), Hilton Head Island, SC, June 6–9, pp. 84–87.
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## Figures

Fig. 1

Rigid spherical tip in contact with a deformable sample under combined normal and tangential loading

Fig. 2

Representative surface roughness of the polyimide samples: (a) before an experiment, (b) after an experiment, and (c) the difference between pre- and post-scans over a 5 μm × 5 μm region in the center

Fig. 3

Fig. 4

Unidirectional sliding experiment on polyimide with P = 1000 μN

Fig. 5

Normal displacements imposed in pull-off tests

Fig. 6

Cyclic indentation tests on polyimide

Fig. 7

Pull-off force measurements on polyimide

Fig. 8

Fig. 11

Energy dissipation versus tangential force curves for different preload fluctuation and phase different levels

Fig. 10

Hysteresis loops from the eighth cycle of constant normal force presliding experiments for maximum tangential force amplitudes of: (a) 92 μN, (b) 126 μN, (c) 140 μN, and (d) 153 μN

Fig. 9

## Tables

Table 2 Power-law exponents for scratch tests on polyimide

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