Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2007-02-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
10 pages; 4 figures; 1 Table
Scientific paper
We have devised an original laboratory experiment where we investigate the frictional behaviour of a single crystal salt slider over a large number of deformation cycles. Because of its physical properties, salt, a surrogate for natural faults, allows for friction and plastic deformation and pressure solution creep to be efficient on the same timescale. During the same experiment, we observe a continuous change of the frictional behaviour of the slider under constant conditions of stiffness, temperature and loading velocity. The stick-slip regime is progressively vanishing, eventually reaching the stable sliding regime. Concomitantly, the contact interface, observed under the microscope, develops a striated morphology with contact asperities increase in length and width, arguing for an increase in the critical slip distance dc. Complementary experiments including velocity jumps show that the frictional parameters of the rate and state friction law, a and b, progressively vanish with the cumulative slip. In our experimental conditions, the ultimate stage of friction is therefore rate and state independent.
Grasso Jean-Robert
Renard Francois
Voisin Christophe
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