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On the Gravity-Driven Sliding Motion of a Planar Board on a Tilted Soft Porous Layer

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In this paper, we report a novel experimental study to investigate the gravity-driven sliding motion of a planar board over a tilted soft porous layer. A laser displacement sensor was used to measure the motion of the board, while a high-speed camera was adopted to capture the detailed compression of the porous layer when the board glided over it. The pore pressure generation, as a result of the compression, was recorded by pressure sensors mounted on the bottom surface of the porous layer. One finds that, the pressure distribution agrees well with the theory developed by Wu and Sun (Med Sci Sports Exerc 43:1955–1963, 2011). Extensive parametric study was performed by varying the center of gravity of the planar board, the tilted angle and the porous material. Consistent agreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental results was obtained. It shows that, the effect of soft porous lubrication is enhanced when the center of gravity moves toward to the trailing edge of the planar board, or the tilted angle of the porous layer is increased, or a smoother fibrous surface is used.

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This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 1511096. The authors would like to acknowledge Mr. Lu An for helping in SEM analysis of the testing materials, and Mr. Bchara Sidnawi and Mr. James Reynolds for manuscript proof-reading. The technical support from Mr. Chris Townend and Mr. Zach Nowasad are greatly appreciated.

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    Zenghao Zhu, Rungun Nathan & Qianhong Wu

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 19085, USA

    Zenghao Zhu & Qianhong Wu

  3. Division of Engineering, Penn State Berks, Reading, PA, 19610, USA

    Rungun Nathan

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The sliding motion of the planar board on the porous layer is recorded by a high-speed camera at the moment when the geometric center of the board gliding through the absolute location S = 98.9 mm. We provide herein two videos which represent two different D/L ratios when θ = 17.5° and the porous material is cotton fibers. Video 1 is for D/L = 1.42, while Video 2 is for D/L = 0.17. It is clearly shown in these two videos the instantaneous compression of the porous layer. Supplementary material 1 (MP4 1633 kb)

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Zhu, Z., Nathan, R. & Wu, Q. On the Gravity-Driven Sliding Motion of a Planar Board on a Tilted Soft Porous Layer. Tribol Lett 67, 126 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-019-1238-8

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