| Autor: |
Alghamdi S; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 33 Colchester Avenue, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States.; Department of Civil Engineering, Taif University, Taif 21944, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia., Liu Z; Department of Mechanical Engineering, 33 Colchester Avenue, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States., Du F; Department of Mechanical Engineering, 124 Admin Drive, Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, Vermont 05061, United States., Yang J; Department of Physics, 82 University Place, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States., Dahmen KA; Department of Physics and Institute of Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States., Tan T; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 33 Colchester Avenue, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, United States. |
| Abstrakt: |
Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, possesses extraordinary mechanical properties resulting from its intriguing hierarchical brick-and-mortar microstructures. Despite prior studies, interactions between nanoasperities during sliding still need to be elucidated. In this study, we measure slip events between nanograins of microlayers at high temporal resolution during torsion-induced sliding. We model the slips as avalanches caused by interactions of atoms on nanograin surfaces, from which power laws and scaling functions describing statistics and dynamics of slip events are studied. The largest avalanche occurs when nanograins leave each other after the maximum contact. The agreement between measurements and predictions shows that avalanches act essentially in the inhomogeneous sliding of nacreous tablets. Further insights into nanofriction provided in this work may lead to the development of nanoscale tribological systems. |
