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Experimental and numerical study of the effect of surface patterning on the frictional properties of polymer surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Gianluca Costagliola

We describe benchmark experiments to evaluate the frictional properties of laser patterned low-density polyethylene as a function of sliding velocity, normal force, and humidity. The pattern is a square lattice of square cavities with sub-mm spacing. We fi ...

2022

Plastic activity in nanoscratch molecular dynamics simulations of pure aluminium

Jean-François Molinari, Till Junge

Atomistic models for friction suffer from the severe length- and time-scale restrictions of molecular dynamics. In this paper, a novel approach to quantify the scratching work and the energy associated with plastic activity is used. The approach is combine ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Dynamic crack propagation in a heterogeneous ceramic microstructure, insights from a cohesive model

Jean-François Molinari, Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri Mousavi, Nicolas Richart, Cyprien Wolff

A 2D plane-strain dynamically propagating crack under tensile loading is simulated with cohesive elements. Information of the main crack is extracted from a diffuse crack network with the use of graph properties. Micro-transgranular fracture properties are ...

Elsevier2015

Insights into the thermo-mechanics of orthogonal nanometric machining

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Pedro Romero

The fabrication of high precision miniaturized components in micro- and nano-technologies requires a deep understanding of the physical mechanisms governing the nanomachining process. To aid with this need, the current article employs molecular dynamics to ...

Elsevier2013

Do slip-weakening laws shapes influence rupture dynamics?

Jean-François Molinari, Roxane Mathilde Suzanne Ferry

To model rupture dynamics, a friction law must be assumed. Commonly used constitutive laws include slip- weakening laws which are characterized by a drop from static to dynamic frictional stress over a critical slip distance. Within this framework, the pre ...

ELSEVIER2025

A Fourier-accelerated volume integral method for elastoplastic contact

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

The contact of solids with rough surfaces plays a fundamental role in physical phenomena such as friction, wear, sealing, and thermal transfer. However, its simulation is a challenging problem due to surface asperities covering a wide range of length-scale ...

2019

Breakdown of Reye’s theory in nanoscale wear

Jean-François Molinari, Tobias Brink, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez

Building on an analogy to ductile fracture mechanics, we quantify the size of debris particles created during adhesive wear. Earlier work suggested a linear relation between tangential work and wear debris volume, assuming that the debris size is proportio ...

2023

Analysis of the brittle fragmentation of an expanding ring

Jean-François Molinari

The current research extends our previous work on brittle fragmentation of a one-dimensional bar [F. Zhou, J.-F. Molinari, K.T. Ramesh, A cohesive-model based fragmentation analysis: effects of strain rate and initial defects distribution, International Jo ...

2006

Explosive fragmentation of Prince Rupert's drops leads to well-defined fragment sizes

Jean-François Molinari

Anyone who has ever broken a dish or a glass knows that the resulting fragments range from roughly the size of the object all the way down to indiscernibly small pieces: typical fragment size distributions of broken brittle materials follow a power law, an ...

Nature Research2021

Dynamic fragmentation of a brittle plate under biaxial loading: strength or toughness controlled?

Jean-François Molinari, Sarah Levy

The fragmentation of a brittle plate subjected to dynamic biaxial loading is investigated via numerical simulations. The aim is to extend our understanding of the dynamic processes affecting fragment size distributions. A scalable computational framework b ...

Springer Netherlands2012

Onset of sliding across scales: How the contact topography impacts frictional strength

Jean-François Molinari, Ramin Aghababaei, Fabian Barras

When two solids start rubbing together, frictional sliding initiates in the wake of slip fronts propagating along their surfaces in contact. This macroscopic rupture dynamics can be successfully mapped on the elastodynamics of a moving shear crack. However ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Data-driven 1D wave propagation for site response analysis

Jean-François Molinari, Antonio Joaquin Garcia Suarez, Sacha Zenon Wattel

Prediction of ground motion triggered by earthquakes is a prime concern for both the seismology community and geotechnical earthquake engineering one. The subfield occupied with such a problem is termed site response analysis (SRA), its one-dimensional fla ...

WILEY2023

Meso-scale modelling of ASR in concrete: effect of viscoelasticity

Jean-François Molinari, Mauro Corrado, Emil Gallyamov, Roozbeh Rezakhani

A meso-scale numerical model for simulating damage in concrete due to ASR is presented. It accounts for the internal structure of concrete including aggregates and mortar. ASR sites are explicitly represented. This model is extended to account for viscoela ...

2020

Study on the internal crack network of the ASR-affected concrete by the tomography-based numerical model

Jean-François Molinari, Emil Gallyamov

In this paper, we present a novel finite element model to simulate alkali-silica reaction in a realistic concrete meso-structure. Application of the internal ASR loading leads to the evolution of multiple deviated cracks and corresponding macroscopic expan ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2022

Investigation of Contact Clusters Between Rough Surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Gianluca Costagliola

We investigate the persistence of micro-contacts between two elastic random rough surfaces by means of a simple model for quasi-static sliding. Contact clusters are calculated with the Boundary Element Method, then surfaces are repeatedly displaced to stud ...

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS2022

Quasi-static crack front deformations in cohesive materials

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch, Mathias Alexandre David Lebihain

When a crack interacts with material heterogeneities, its front distorts and adopts complex tortuous configurations that are reminiscent of the energy barriers encountered during crack propagation. As such, the study of crack front deformations is key to r ...

2022

Length Scale of interface heterogeneities selects propagation mechanism of frictional slip fronts

Jean-François Molinari, David Simon Kammer, Daniel Pino Muñoz

We present three-dimensional finite-element simulations showing the propagation of slip fronts at striped heterogeneous interfaces. The heterogeneous area consists of alternating stripes of weaker and stronger frictional properties, which is equivalent to ...

Elsevier2016

Spatial filters for bridging molecular dynamics with finite elements at finite temperatures

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Srinivasa Babu Ramisetti

We present the application of digital filters to split the energy spectrum of an atomistic zone simulated with molecular dynamics into low and high energy components. After a brief background on digital filters, we describe the procedure used to select a c ...

Elsevier2013

Influence of heterogeneities on crack propagation

Jean-François Molinari, Okan Yilmaz, Jérémy Bleyer

The influence of material heterogeneities is studied in the context of dynamic failure. We consider a pre-strained plate problem, the homogeneous case of which has been widely studied both experimentally and numerically. This setup is used to isolate the e ...

2018

A mechanistic model for the growth of cylindrical debris particles in the presence of adhesion

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese

The wear volume is known to keep increasing during frictional processes, and Archard notably proposed a model to describe the probability of wear particle formation upon asperity collision in a two-body contact configuration. While this model is largely ad ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020