... adhesion adhesive wear roughness fractal When two surfaces touch each other, intimate contacts occur at the tips of the asperities and adhesional interaction between the solids arising out of the surface forces becomes significant. This effect need be considered in MEMs, micro-machines...

... 07 10 2008 Adhesion influences pure interfacial friction on ideal surfaces when the scale approaches micro- and nano-scales. For non-adhesive surfaces, the adhesion forces are composed of Van der Waals surface forces and the forces resulted from the contact. The van der Waals forces...