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Applications with combination of high friction and low wear?
What would be some common applications involving high friction and low wear rates? for example, gear-driven mechanisms which require high friction between the gear teeth but ideally low wear between ...
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Is there any material that has a higher kinetic friction than static friction?
Is there a material that has higher kinetic friction than static friction?
You can assume it's sliding on any surface you want.
Better if you come up with one that has this property on a standard ...
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What causes friction in magnetic bearings?
Magnetic bearings work by levitating a rotating shaft so that it is not in contact with its supports. This greatly reduces the friction of the system.
In all of the literature that I have seen on ...
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