Friction 2023, 11(7): 1225-1238 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0651-4

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Active control of friction realized by vibrational excitation: Numerical simulation based on the Prandtl–Tomlinson model and molecular dynamics

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Xiao MA, Xinfeng TAN(

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), Shizhu WEN

State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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superlubricity, vibration, friction control, molecular dynamics (MD)

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MA X, TAN X, GUO D, et al. Active control of friction realized by vibrational excitation: Numerical simulation based on the Prandtl–Tomlinson model and molecular dynamics. Friction, 2023, 11(7): 1225-1238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0651-4

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Superlubricity and active friction control have been extensively researched in order to reduce the consumption of fossil energy, the failure of moving parts, and the waste of materials. The vibration-induced superlubricity (VIS) presents a promising solution for friction reduction since it does not require high-standard environment. However, the mechanism underlying the VIS remains unclear since the atomic-scale information in a buried interface is unavailable to experimental methods. In this paper, the mechanism of VIS was examined via numerical calculation based on the Prandtl–Tomlinson (PT) model and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The results revealed that the pushing effect of stick–slip is one of the direct sources of friction reduction ability under vibrational excitation, which was affected by the response amplitude, frequency, and the trace of the tip. Moreover, the proportion of this pushing effect could be modulated by changing the phase difference when applying coupled vibrational excitation in x- and z-axis. This results in a significant change in friction reduction ability with phase. By this way, active friction control from the stick–slip to superlubricity can be achieved conveniently.

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Active control of friction realized by vibrational excitation: Numerical simulation based on the Prandtl–Tomlinson model and molecular dynamics

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Xiao MA, Xinfeng TAN(

), Dan GUO(

), Shizhu WEN

State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Keywords: superlubricity, vibration, friction control, molecular dynamics (MD)

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Received: 04 December 2021

Revised: 20 February 2022

Accepted: 17 May 2022

Published: 19 November 2022

Issue date: July 2023

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This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52175175 and 51527901).

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