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Surface Pressure from Skin Friction
This chapter describes extraction of surface pressure from skin friction in complex flows as an inverse problem, focusing on its application to...
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Skin Friction from Surface Pressure Visualizations
This chapter discusses extraction of a skin friction field from a surface pressure field, which is particularly relevant to global surface pressure...
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Skin Friction from Surface Temperature Visualizations
This chapter describes extraction of a skin friction field from a surface temperature field, which is particularly relevant to global surface...
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Skin Friction from Surface Scalar Visualizations
This chapter describes extraction of a skin friction field from surface scalar visualizations with pressure sensitive paint (PSP) as an oxygen sensor...
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Skin Friction from Surface Optical Flow
This chapter describes extraction of a skin friction field from the surface optical flow (SOF) that is defined as a convection velocity of a surface...
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Skin Friction from Global Luminescent Oil-Film Visualizations
This chapter describes the global luminescent oil-film (GLOF) skin friction meter that is simply called GLOF. The thin oil-film equation is discussed...
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Reconstruction of skin friction topology in complex separated flows
This paper describes a theoretical method for reconstruction of the skin friction topology in complex separated flows, which is developed based on...
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Friction and Deformation Behavior of Human Skin During Robotic Sliding Massage Operation
This study investigates the friction and deformation behavior of the skin in contact with a rigid massage ball and its influencing factors. Pressing...
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Determining surface pressure from skin friction
This paper presents a general method to extract a surface pressure field from a skin friction field in complex flows as an inverse problem, focusing...
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Skin-Friction Topology on Axisymmetric Boattail Models by an Optical-Flow Algorithm with a Sub-grid Function
Skin friction along with pressure and temperature is an important parameter in fluid mechanics. This study presents the results of skin-friction...
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Load-settlement and skin friction behaviour of piles in dry sand: experimental and numerical study
The objective of the study was to evaluate the load-settlement behaviour of piles, both with and without the inclusion of a sponge material at the...
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3D Numerical Modeling of Negative Skin Friction Effects on Tapered Piles in Soft Soils
The surrounding soil of pile foundations may settle as a result of fill placing or even consolidation, especially in soft grounds. If the soil...
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An Experimental Study Evaluating the Negative Skin Friction on Single and Group of Close-ended Circular Pipe Piles Embedded in Gypseous Soil
The engineering characteristics of gypseous soil change as it becomes wet, posing a risk to the structures above it. The bearing capacity and...
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Negative Skin Friction on Piles: State of the Art
Pile foundation experiences negative skin friction when the surrounding soil settles more than the pile, which induces an increased compressive force...
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Tribological Measurements of Human Skin
There are practical answers to tribology-related problems all around us. Often, one of the interacting surfaces in relative motion is the human skin....
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Negative skin friction of piles installed in dredged slurry after being reinforced by the vacuum preloading method
Negative skin friction (NSF) is an undesirable effect of piles observed in the dredged slurry of coastal reclamation areas. Herein, a testing...
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Skin friction topology on ground vehicle models
Global luminescent oil-film skin friction meter is used to extract the skin friction topology on two generic ground vehicle models: the Ahmed body...
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A simplified photogrammetry procedure in oil-film interferometry for accurate skin-friction measurement over arbitrary geometries
AbstractAn accurate and straightforward skin-friction measurement procedure over a three-dimensional (3D) bump geometry is proposed. The procedure...
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Effect of Surface Roughness Size on the Skin Friction Drag for NACA0012 Airfoil
The generated lift and drag forces for any airfoil represent the crucial parameters that measure the airfoil’s performance. The high lifting force to...
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Experiment and modelling of texture and sliding direction dependence on finger friction behavior
Humans rely on their fingers to sense and interact with external environment. Understanding the tribological behavior between finger skin and object...
