sliding friction

British  

noun

1. engineering frictional resistance to relative movement of surfaces on loaded contact Compare rolling friction

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Example Sentences

Tribometer, trī-bom′e-tėr, n. a sled-like apparatus for measuring sliding friction.

From Project Gutenberg

Friction of solids may be divided into two classes: sliding friction, such as exists between the piston and cylinder, or the bearings of a gas-engine, and rolling friction, which is that present when the load is supported by ball or roller bearings, or that which exists between the tires or the driving wheels and the road.

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Two years later, with a dynamometer which he designed for the purpose, he made experimental determinations of the resistance of trains, and showed that it was made up of several kinds, as the sliding friction of the axle-journals in their bearings, the rolling friction of the wheels on the rails, the resistance due to gravity on gradients, and that due to the resistance of the air.

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The Cause of Sliding Friction is the interlocking of the asperities of one surface with those of another; and only by the riding of one set over the other, or by a rubbing down or tearing off of projecting parts, can motion take place.

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Sliding Friction is Proportional to Pressure according to the third law quoted above.

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