Sa. Chizhik et al., ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR SCALE ROUGHNESS EFFECT ON CONTACT OF SOLIDS BASED ON COMPUTER MODELING, Precision engineering, 17(3), 1995, pp. 186-191
The real contact between solids is modeled at the molecular scale, and
the results are presented. Adhesion, real contact area, and approach
of the surfaces are evaluated with the help of scanning, tunneling, an
d atomic force microscope imaging of the surfaces.