Influence of Metallic Particles on Properties of Aluminium Composites through Taguchi Technique by B. Venkatesh, Anantha Raman Lakshmipathi, T. Prakash, Pothamsetty Kasi V. Rao, Rajesh Verma, N. Nagabhooshanam, Simon Yishak

“…The improved hardness of the composite has decreased wear and friction. Furthermore, by using ceramic strengthening with the metal, the impact strength of the composites was condensed. …”
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An Accurate Upper Bound Solution for Plane Strain Extrusion through a Wedge-Shaped Die by Sergei Alexandrov, Yusof Mustafa, Yeong-Maw Hwang, Elena Lyamina

“…A technique for constructing a kinematically admissible velocity field satisfying the exact asymptotic singular behavior of real velocity fields in the vicinity of maximum friction surfaces (the friction stress at sliding is equal to the shear yield stress on such surfaces) is described. …”
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The Stability Analyses of Tunnel Faces in Saturated Soils with Soil Arching Effect by Liu An, Xi Mingxing, Liu Jun

“…The results illustrate that soils with the bigger friction angle form the arch more easily during excavation, and with higher water height, the soil arching effect appears not as obvious as expected, particularly on those soils with the smaller friction angle.…”
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Analytical Computation of Sandy Slope Stability under the Groundwater Seepage and Earthquake Conditions by Yulin Lu, Xiaoran Chen, Li Wang

“…In the solution, the effects of parameters such as water level, seismic acceleration coefficients, slope angle, and soil internal friction angle on the slope stability have been discussed. …”
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A Statistic Damage Model of Rocks considering the Effect of Loading Rate by Kai Cui, Bin Hu, Jing Li

“…The proposed model can also account for the residual strength of rocks by introducing a modified equivalent strain principle, which considers the contribution of the friction force to the strength of rocks. The friction force is generated by the movements of the nearby microcracks. …”
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Influence of Spiral Angle on the Performance of Spiral Oil Wedge Sleeve Bearing by Li-li Wang, Qing-liang Zeng, Xin Zhang

“…The results show that carrying capacity and friction drag of oil film decrease, temperature rise decreases first and then increases, and end leakage rate, stiffness, and damping coefficients generally increase first and then decrease with the increase of spiral angle. …”
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Stagnation Point Flow of Nanofluid over a Moving Plate with Convective Boundary Condition and Magnetohydrodynamics by Fazle Mabood, Nopparat Pochai, Stanford Shateyi

“…It is found that the friction factor and heat and mass transfer rates increase with magnetic field and suction/injection parameters.…”
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Unsteady Flow of Reactive Viscous, Heat Generating/Absorbing Fluid with Soret and Variable Thermal Conductivity by I. J. Uwanta, M. M. Hamza

“…The skin friction, heat transfer coefficients, and Sherwood number are graphically presented for a range of values of the said parameters.…”
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Effect of Filler Content on the Performance of Epoxy/PTW Composites by Mudradi Sudheer, Ravikantha Prabhu, Kandavalli Raju, Thirumaleshwara Bhat

“…The effect of various test variables and material parameters on the friction and wear behavior of epoxy/PTW composites has been studied systematically. …”
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INFLUENCE OF ADDITIONAL VIBRATION IMPACT ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTRICAL STIMULATION PROCEDURE by M. G. Kiselev, E. I. Labun, P. S. Liutsko

“…An experimental instrument complex which includes hardware for performing complex procedures using electrical shock massager frictional action was performed. The aim of the study was to influence the additional vibration effect on the efficiency of the procedure of electrostimulation.In order to increase the efficiency of the procedure electrostimulation authors proposed to carry it out with using of massager shock-friction action. …”
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Simplified Method for Calculating the Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls of Narrow Backfill Width Based on DEM Analysis by Minghui Yang, Bo Deng

“…Furthermore, the effects of the width of the backfill, internal friction angle of soil, and wall-soil friction angle on the distribution of active earth pressure are discussed.…”
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Fortis-lenis distinction of fricatives and plosives in Welsh – Phonetically distinctive factors by Michał Baran

“…Based on the previous studies, the importance of aspiration and voicing length are analysed in Welsh plosives. For fricatives, friction and voicing length are studied as potentially contrastive. …”
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Elastoplastic Analysis of Circular Tunnel Based on Drucker–Prager Criterion by Xiongfei Yang, Hong Yuan, Jiayu Wu, Shanqing Li

“…In view of soil loosening around the tunnel caused by the tunnel excavation process, the internal friction angle of the surrounding soil is not a constant but a function of normal stress. …”
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Bridging Macro–Microscopic Parameters: Correspondence and Calibration Approaches by Wei Li, Fengling Ji, Xiangsheng Chen

“…Through inter-particle friction experiments, particle–wall friction experiments, uniaxial compression experiments and numerical simulations, we studied the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic parameters. …”
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Numerical simulations of irreversibility for nonlinearly radiative and chemically reactive flow of Maxwell fluid by Debozani Borgohain

“…Numerical results of the impressions of material parameters on Skin friction, Nusselt and Sherwood numbers are also tabulated. …”
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Finite difference solution of radiation effects on MHD unsteady free-convection flow over vertical plate with variable surface temperature by M. A. Abd El-Naby, Elsayed M. E. Elbarbary, Nader Y. Abdelazem

“…The numerical results reveal that the radiation has significant influences on the velocity and temperature profiles, skin friction, and Nusselt number. The results indicate that the velocity, temperature, and local and average skin friction increase as the radiation parameter increases, while the local and average Nusselt numbers decrease as the radiation parameter increases.…”
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Simplified Calculation Method for Seismic Active Earth Pressure of Translational Retaining Wall considering Soil Arching Effect by Zheng-zhen Wang, Rang-cheng Kou, Yong Zhou, Tian-zhong Ma

“…Then, the influence of soil internal friction angle, wall-soil friction angle, and seismic coefficient on seismic active earth pressure theory was analyzed. …”
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A compressive damage model for a rock considering the microcrack mechanical behavior by Cui LIU, Zhong LI, Feiya XU, Mo ZHANG, Xiaowei CAO, Heng LEI

“…Finally, the parametric sensitivity analysis was adopted to study the effects of the microcrack length, friction coefficient, and rock fracture toughness on the rock mechanical properties. …”
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Experimental study on geogrid-soil interface properties based on pullout tests: A case study by Zhijie Wang, Guowei Zhang, Guangqing Yang, Yan Qin, Shiguang Zhou

“…With increasing degree of compaction, the interfacial friction angle and the interfacial cohesion of the geogrid-soil interface gradually increased. …”
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Study on the Effect of CeO₂ on the Performance of WC + Ni60 Laser Cladding Coating by Jingquan Wu, Jianwen Zhang, Dianlong Chen, Jiang Huang, Wenqing Shi, Fenju An, Xianglin Wu

“…Additionally, the abrasion and corrosion resistance properties were assessed through experimentation with a pin-and-disc friction and wear tester and an electrochemical workstation, respectively. …”
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