Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Soft Matter. 2018 Jul 18;14(28):5706-5709. doi: 10.1039/c8sm00823j.
In the fall of 2015, Martin Müser suggested a Contact Mechanics Challenge for the Tribology community. The challenge was an ambitious effort to compare a wide variety of theoretical and computational contact-mechanics approaches, and involved researchers voluntarily tackling the same hypothetical contact problem. The result is an impressive collection of innovative approaches - including a surprise experimental effort - that highlight the continuing importance of surface contact mechanics and the challenges of solving these large-scale problems. Here, we describe how the Contact Mechanics Challenge also reveals exciting opportunities for the Soft Matter community to engage intensely with classical and emerging problems in tribology, surface science, and contact mechanics.
2015 年秋，Martin Müser 向摩擦学领域的同仁们提出了一项接触力学挑战。这项挑战极具雄心，旨在比较各种理论和计算接触力学方法，涉及研究人员自愿解决同一假设的接触问题。其成果是汇集了各种创新方法，包括一项令人惊喜的实验工作，突出了表面接触力学的持续重要性以及解决这些大规模问题的挑战。在这里，我们描述了接触力学挑战如何为软物质领域提供了充满活力的机会，使其能够深入参与摩擦学、表面科学和接触力学领域的经典和新兴问题。
