The Friction Forces Between Si Tip and Multilayer Graphene

Author(s):  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Yingying Wang ◽  
Yunfei Chen ◽  
Yujuan Wang

Mechanical peeling method is used to prepare multilayer graphene on silicon wafer with natural oxide, and the layer number of graphene is determined through atomic force microsopy (AFM) topography image and optical image. The friction force between Silicon tip and multilayer graphene and SiO2/Si substrates is measured with AFM. It is found that the friction force is reduced with the increase of the graphene layer number and approaches the value between the Si tip and graphite. Through comparing the tip sliding on graphene with different layers, the deformation of graphene is believed to be the main reason causing the decrease of the friction force with the layer number. When the normal load is much larger than the adhesion force, friction force increases with normal load linearly. However, while normal load closes to the adhesion force, friction force is independent of the normal load.

1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhisa Ando ◽  
Yuichi Ishikawa ◽  
Tokio Kitahara

The friction coefficient and adhesion force between steel balls and flat test pieces were measured during friction under low normal load in order to examine the tribological characteristics. First, the friction coefficients were measured under a constant normal load of 0.8 to 2350 μN, and the adhesion forces were measured before and after each friction. The result showed that the friction coefficient was highest at low normal loads, while the friction force divided by the sum of the normal load and the mean adhesion force was almost constant over the whole range of loads. Second, when the normal load was reduced gradually during friction, friction still acted when the normal load became negative and a pulling off force was applied to the surface. Thus an adhesion force acts during friction and this adhesion force affects the friction force in the same way as the normal load.


Author(s):  
Been-Der Yang ◽  
Chia-Hsiang Menq

Designers of aircraft engines frequently employ shrouds in turbine design. In this paper, a variable normal load friction force model is proposed to investigate the influence of shroud-like contact kinematics on the forced response of frictionally constrained turbine blades. Analytical criteria are formulated to predict the transitions between slick, slip, and separation of the interface so as to assess the induced friction forces. When considering cyclic loading, the induced friction forces are combined with the variable normal load so as to determine the effective stiffness and damping of the friction joint over a cycle of motion. The harmonic balance method is then used to impose the effective stiffness and damping of the friction joint on the linear structure. The solution procedure for the nonlinear response nf a two-degree-of-freedom oscillator is demonstrated. As an application, this procedure is used to study the coupling effect of two constrained forces, friction force and variable normal load, on the optimization of the shroud contact design.


Author(s):  
Weiwei Gu ◽  
Zili Xu ◽  
Lv Qiang

The gap friction damper model is presented in this paper, which is employed to simulate the friction forces at the contact points of the shroud interface. Using the harmonic balance method (HBM), the friction force can be approximated by a series of harmonic functions. The governing differential equations of blade motion are transformed into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations, which can be solved iteratively to yield the steady-state response. The results show that the forced response is attenuated due to the additional damping introduced by frictional slip. The predicted results agree well with those of the Runge-Kutta method. In addition, the effect of parameters of damping structures such as the gap size, friction coefficient and normal load on the forced response of blades were studied. The results show that increasing the damper gap size causes a increase in resonant response. However, the increment isn’t obvious. In addition, an increase in friction coefficient or normal load decreases the forced response of blade.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-773
Author(s):  
A. Fridberg ◽  
L. Vinnik

A new hypothesis for friction forces between two elastic bodies is proposed. The hypothesis is based on contact mechanics problem. The study concentrates on the problem of a railway wheel rolling on rail under tractive effort and normal load. The effect of friction force in developing adhesion is considered. Based on the proposed hypothesis, new design of a railway wheelset has been developed and tested on Moscow Metro and tramcar.


Author(s):  
Huan Chen ◽  
Guangan Zhang ◽  
Zhibin Lu ◽  
Xia Li ◽  
Narasimalu Srikanth ◽  
...  

Tribological behaviors of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films with different levels of hierarchical surface textures with lubricant water molecules are investigated through molecular dynamics simulation. The friction forces stabilize at a small value for small normal loads, due to the complete separation between DLC films by water molecules, while friction forces with large normal loads show complicated changes under the cooperation of interfacial evolution and water behaviors. Under large normal loads, friction force increases firstly due to the direct contact of surface textures which are subsequently worn and graphitized, resulting in the temporary stabilization of friction force at a large value. With their further wearing, the amount of interfacial carbon clusters decreases and water molecules distribute evenly at interface, which leads to the gradual decrease and final stabilization of friction force. During the sliding, the water molecules show a restoration in the structure and amount of hydrogen bonds, thus making these molecules play different roles in various stages, i.e., these molecules demonstrate a better diffusion during the friction rise and an enhanced separating effect for DLC films during the friction stabilization. Furthermore, the same amount of water molecules in the one-level hierarchical (L1) model has a larger bearing capacity than that in the two-level hierarchical (L2) model. When the normal load exceeds the bearing capacity of water, the friction force for model L2 is more stable and smaller than that for model L1 after running-in periods due to flattened interfaces and evenly distributed water molecules.


2005 ◽  
Vol 867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Jae Kang ◽  
Yi-Koan Hong ◽  
Jae-Hoon Song ◽  
In-Kwon Kim ◽  
Jin-Goo Park

AbstractThe interaction between Cu surface and abrasive particles in slurry solution was characterized. The adsorption behavior of the citrate ions was dependent on the pH of the slurry and the concentration of the citric acid. The adsorption of citrate ions generated a highly negative charge on the alumina surface and shifted isoelectric point (IEP) to lower pH values. The Cu removal rate of alumina slurry was higher than that of colloidal silica based slurry in the investigated pH ranges. Although lower friction forces of Cu were observed in alumina based slurry of pH 4, 6 and 8, a higher friction force was observed at pH 2. This high friction force was attributed to the positive zeta potential and greater adhesion force of particle. It indicates that the magnitudes of particle adhesions on Cu surfaces in slurries can be directly related to the frictional behavior during CMP process.


Author(s):  
B Bhushan

Atomic force microscopy/friction force microscopy (AFM/FFM) techniques are increasingly used for tribological studies of engineering surfaces at scales ranging from atomic and molecular to microscales. These techniques have been used to study surface roughness, adhesion, friction, scratching/wear, indentation, detection of material transfer and boundary lubrication and for nanofabrication/nanomachining purposes. Micro/nanotribological studies of materials of scientific and engineering interest have been conducted. Commonly measured roughness parameters are found to be scale dependent, requiring the need of scale-independent fractal parameters to characterize surface roughness. Measurement of atomic-scale friction of a freshly cleaved highly orientated pyrolytic graphite exhibited the same periodicity as that of corresponding topography. However, the peaks in friction and those in corresponding topography were displaced relative to each other. Variations in atomic-scale friction and the observed displacement have been explained by the variations in interatomic forces in the normal and lateral directions. Local variation in microscale friction is found to correspond to the local slope, suggesting that a ratchet mechanism is responsible for this variation. Directionality in the friction is observed on both micro- and macroscales which results from the surface preparation and anisotropy in surface roughness. Microscale friction is generally found to be smaller than macroscale friction as there is less ploughing contribution in microscale measurements. Microscale friction is load dependent and friction values increase with an increase in the normal load, approaching the macrofriction at contact stresses higher than the hardness of the softer material. The wear rate for single-crystal silicon is negligible below 20 μN and is much higher and remains approximately constant at higher loads. Elastic deformation at low loads is responsible for negligible wear. The mechanism of material removal on a microscale is studied. At the loads used in the study, material is removed by the ploughing mode in a brittle manner without much plastic deformation. Most of the wear debris is loose. Evolution of the wear has also been studied using AFM. Wear is found to be initiated at nanoscratches. AFM has been modified to obtain load-displacement curves and for measurement of nanoindentation hardness and Young's modulus of elasticity, with the depth of indentation as low as 1 nm. Hardness of ceramics on the nanoscale is found to be higher than that on the microscale. Ceramics exhibit significant plasticity and creep on the nanoscale. Scratching and indentation on nanoscales are powerful ways to screen for adhesion and resistance to deformation of ultra-thin films. Detection of material transfer on the nanoscale is possible with AFM. Boundary lubrication studies and measurement of lubricant-film thickness with a lateral resolution on a nanoscale have been conducted using AFM. Self-assembled monolayers and chemically bonded lubricant films with a mobile fraction are superior in wear resistance. Friction and wear on micro- and nanoscales at low loads have been found to be generally smaller compared to that at macroscales. Therefore, micro/nanotribological studies may help define the regimes for ultra-low friction and near-zero wear.


Friction ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deliang Zhang ◽  
Yuge Zhang ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Mingdong Dong

AbstractLoad-dependent friction hysteresis is an intriguing phenomenon that occurs in many materials, where the friction measured during unloading is larger than that measured during loading for a given normal load. However, the mechanism underlying this behavior is still not well understood. In this work, temperature-controlled friction force microscopy was utilized to explore the origin of friction hysteresis on exfoliated monolayer graphene. The experimental observations show that environmental adsorbates from ambient air play an important role in the load dependence of friction. Specifically, the existence of environmental adsorbates between the tip and graphene surface gives rise to an enhanced tip-graphene adhesion force, which leads to a positive friction hysteresis where the friction force is larger during unloading than during loading. In contrast to positive friction hysteresis, a negative friction hysteresis where the friction force is smaller during unloading than during loading is observed through the removal of the environmental adsorbates upon in situ annealing. It is proposed that the measured friction hysteresis originates from the hysteresis in the contact area caused by environmental adsorbates between the tip and graphene. These findings provide a revised understanding of the friction hysteresis in monolayer graphene in terms of environmental adsorbates.


1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhisa Ando ◽  
Jiro Ino

The friction and pull-off forces between regular asperity arrays with various heights on a silicon wafer and a scanning probe of an atomic force microscope (AFM) were measured. We used two-dimensional periodic asperity arrays. The arrays were created by using a focused ion beam (FIB) to mill patterns on a silicon plate and on a platinum layer deposited on a silicon plate. For both materials, the distance between adjacent peaks was about 240 nm and the groove depth ranged from about 3 to 49 nm. The probe of the AFM was a square flat, 0.7 × 0.7 μm2. For the silicon array, the pull-off force decreased with increasing groove depth and was proportional to the radius of curvature of the asperity. The friction force also decreased with asperity height and was proportional to both the asperity curvature and the pull-off force. For the platinum asperity array, although both the pull-off and friction forces also decreased with groove depth, the friction coefficient (calculated by dividing the friction force by the pull-off force) was about half that of the silicon asperity array.


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