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Tribology Letters
Published in: Tribology Letters 4/2018

01-12-2018 | Original Paper

On the Use of Silicon Rubber Replica for Surface Topography Studies

Authors: J. S. Persson, A. Tiwari, E. Valbahs, T. V. Tolpekina, B. N. J. Persson

Published in: Tribology Letters | Issue 4/2018

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Abstract

Silicone rubber is often used to obtain replica of surfaces which are hard to study directly. Here we discuss under what conditions engineering stylus measurements can be used to obtain the correct surface roughness from the replica. We also show how thin vertical slices of the silicone rubber can be used to obtain the surface roughness power spectra for the long-wavelength roughness on even very rough surfaces, such as road surfaces, which may be hard to probe directly with standard optical or stylus instruments.
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Footnotes
1
The computer software was developed by E. Valbahs.
 
2
In Re. [32] aqueous solution with 1% Triton-X-100 or 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate was used to prevent adhesion between the tip and the (very soft) PDMS rubber (Sylgard 184, 1:50, with the Young’s modulus E ≈ 17 kPa)
 
3
Using FEM, Thang X. Duong and Roger A. Sauer have studied the deformations of an elastic block as a function of increasing tangential force, see https://​arxiv.​org/​abs/​1808.​10420 . They have produced an interesting movie illustrating the deformation field, see https://​doi.​org/​10.​5446/​37885
 
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Metadata
Title
On the Use of Silicon Rubber Replica for Surface Topography Studies
Authors
J. S. Persson
A. Tiwari
E. Valbahs
T. V. Tolpekina
B. N. J. Persson
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Tribology Letters / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1023-8883
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2711
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-018-1092-0

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