List of works - Luciano Afferrante

A note on Merwin’s measurements of forward flow in rolling contact

A note on the pull-off force for a pattern of contacts distributed over a halfspace

A note on thermoelastodynamic instability (TEDI) for a 1D elastic layer: Force control

A re-examination of rolling contact fatigue experiments by Clayton and Su with suggestions for surface durability calculations

article

Adhesion between self-affine rough surfaces: Possible large effects in small deviations from the nominally Gaussian case

Adhesion of rigid rough contacts with bounded distribution of heights

Adhesive contact of the Weierstrass profile

article published in 2015

Annular dilatation and loss of sino-tubular junction in aneurysmatic aorta: implications on leaflet quality at the time of surgery. A finite element study.

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

Biomimetic surfaces with controlled direction-dependent adhesion.

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Corrugation models and the roaring rails enigma: a simple analytical contact mechanics model based on a perturbation of Carter’s solution

Effect of drop volume and surface statistics on the superhydrophobicity of randomly rough substrates

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Effect of small harmonic oscillations during the steady rolling of a cylinder on a plane

Equilibrium states and stability of pre-tensioned adhesive tapes

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

Fluid-structure interaction of deformable aortic prostheses with a bileaflet mechanical valve

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

Frictionally excited thermoelastic instability in the presence of contact resistance

Interaction of thermal contact resistance and frictional heating in thermoelastic instability

Is Weibull’s modulus really a material constant? Example case with interacting collinear cracks

Meeting the Contact-Mechanics Challenge

article published in 2017

Microstructured superhydrorepellent surfaces: effect of drop pressure on fakir-state stability and apparent contact angles ⬇️

scientific article published on July 29, 2010

On the stress concentration around a hole in a half-plane subject to moving contact loads

article by Luciano Afferrante et al published June 2006 in International Journal of Solids and Structures

Rolling cylinder on an elastic half-plane with harmonic oscillations in normal force and rotational speed. Part I: Solution of the partial slip contact problem

Rolling cylinder on an elastic half-plane with harmonic oscillations in normal force and rotational speed. Part II: Energy dissipation receptances and example calculations of corrugation in the short-pitch range

Separated steady state solutions for two thermoelastic half-planes in contact with out-of-plane sliding

Short pitch corrugation of railway tracks with wooden or concrete sleepers: An enigma solved?

Short-pitch rail corrugation: A possible resonance-free regime as a step forward to explain the “enigma”?

article by Luciano Afferrante & M. Ciavarella published April 2009 in Wear

Sliding thermoelastodynamic instability

scientific article published in 2006

Statistical theory of wetting of liquid drops on superhydrophobic randomly rough surfaces.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

The effect of drop volume and micropillar shape on the apparent contact angle of ordered microstructured surfaces

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

The thermoelastic Aldo contact model with frictional heating

Thermo-Elastic Dynamic Instability (TEDI)—a review of recent results

Thermo-elastic dynamic instability (TEDI) in frictional sliding of two elastic half-spaces

Thermoelastic Dynamic Instability (TEDI) in Frictional Sliding of a Half-Space Against a Rigid Non-Conducting Wall

Thermoelastic instability in a thin layer sliding between two half-planes: transient behaviour

Transient analysis of frictionally excited thermoelastic instability in multi-disk clutches and brakes

“Frictionless” and “frictional” ThermoElastic Dynamic Instability (TEDI) of sliding contacts

article published in 2006

List of works by Luciano Afferrante