How ploughing and frictional melting regulate ice-skating friction

Feng DU; Peng KE; Ping HONG

doi:10.1007/s40544-022-0711-9

Friction 2023, 11(11): 2036-2058 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0711-9

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How ploughing and frictional melting regulate ice-skating friction

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), Peng KE^¹, Ping HONG^²

1 School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

2 Beijing Sports University, Beijing 100084, China

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coefficient of friction, skating, ice friction, ploughing, frictional melting

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DU F, KE P, HONG P. How ploughing and frictional melting regulate ice-skating friction. Friction, 2023, 11(11): 2036-2058. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-022-0711-9

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The slipperiness of ice is well known while, for ice skating, its mechanism still needs further investigation, where the complex interactions including the thermal conduction of the skate–meltwater–ice system, the ploughing and the frictional melting of ice to the friction force are still unclear. This study presents a theoretical framework and a simplified analytical solution to unveil the friction mechanism when a curved skate sliding on ice. The theory is validated by experiments and the effects of these various factors, including the sliding velocity, the ice temperature, the supporting weight, and the geometry of the skate blade to the friction are revealed in detail. This study finds that the contribution of friction force from the ploughing deformation through skate indentation and that from the fluid friction through the shear motion of the meltwater layer is comparable with each other, which thus clarifies how the ploughing deformation of the ice substrate together with its frictional melting regulates the friction during skating.

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How ploughing and frictional melting regulate ice-skating friction

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Feng DU^¹(

), Peng KE^¹, Ping HONG^²

1 School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

2 Beijing Sports University, Beijing 100084, China

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Keywords: coefficient of friction, skating, ice friction, ploughing, frictional melting

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Received: 29 May 2022

Revised: 12 September 2022

Accepted: 26 October 2022

Published: 23 March 2023

Issue date: November 2023

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This research was primary supported by National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFF0304600).

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