Friction is the oldest branch of non-equilibrium condensed matter physics and, at the same
time, the least established at the fundamental level. A full understanding and control of …

Contacting bodies subjected to sufficiently large applied shear will undergo frictional sliding.
The onset of this motion is mediated by dynamically propagating fronts, akin to earthquakes …

We study how the commonly neglected coupling of normal and in-plane elastic response
affects tribological properties when Hertzian or randomly rough indenters slide past an …

We conduct meter-scale rock friction experiments to study strain rate effect on fault slip and
rupture evolution. Two rock samples made of Indian metagabbro, with a nominal contact …

Frictional slip between bodies having different elastic or geometrical properties (bimaterial
interfaces) creates a unique type of rupture, bimaterial “slip pulses.” These slip pulses …

We study rupture fronts propagating along the interface separating two bodies at the onset of
frictional motion via high-temporal-resolution measurements of the real contact area and …

The onset of sliding motion is conditional on the propagation of rupture fronts that detach the
contacting asperities forming a frictional interface. These ruptures, when propagating over a …

Slow slip events on tectonic faults, sliding instabilities that never accelerate to inertially
limited ruptures or earthquakes, are one of the most enigmatic phenomena in frictional …

The spectral boundary integral (SBI) method has been widely employed in the study of
fractures and friction within elastic and elastodynamic media, given its natural applicability to …

Earthquake rupture propagation along a fault interface depends on the governing friction
law. Although a variety of friction laws have been proposed based on measurements made …