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Experimental and theoretical investigation of the energy dissipation of a rolling disk during its final stage of motion

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This paper is concerned with the dominant dissipation mechanism for a rolling disk in the final stage of its motion. The aim of this paper is to present the various dissipation mechanisms for a rolling disk which are used in the literature in a unified framework. Furthermore, new experiments on the ‘Euler disk’ using a high-speed video camera and a novel image analysis technique are presented. The combined experimental/theoretical approach of this paper sheds some more light on the dominant dissipation mechanism on the time-scale of several seconds.

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Leine, R.I. Experimental and theoretical investigation of the energy dissipation of a rolling disk during its final stage of motion. Arch Appl Mech 79, 1063–1082 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00419-008-0278-6

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