Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz have published an article on friction in the journal Small. Their research on "bismuth islands" moving on ...

The problem the model helps answer is that to explain these slow slips, other researchers reached for artificial friction laws, or explanations that included specific but fictional parameters like ...

More information: Toshiki Watanabe et al, Viscoelastic toy model explaining the static friction paradox in stick-slip instability without friction laws, Physical Review E (2025). DOI: 10.1103/dn4g ...