Friction Papers


Slip instability and state variable friction laws,
Ruina, A, JGR, 88, B12, 10,359-10,370, Dec 1983.        .pdf file

Friction laws and instabilities. PhD thesis. Brown University. 1981
Ruina, A.                                            14 meg .pdf scan

Slip patterns in a spatially homogeneous fault model
Horowitz, F, Ruina, A, JGR, 94, B8, 10,279-10,298, Aug 1989.        .pdf file

Papers on the net friction force and moment at a planar contact with rate-independent though possibly anisotropic friction. These include discussion of the dynamics of a sliding hockey puck and such like. [These papers and the references therein seem to cover much of what is in the more recent paper: Frictional Coupling between Sliding and Spinning Motion Zénó Farkas, Guido Bartels, Tamás Unger, and Dietrich E.Wolf, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 , 248302 (issue of 20 June 2003).]


1) Goyal, S., Ruina, A. and Papadopaulos, J.M.,
Planar Sliding with Dry Friction I: Limit Surface and Moment Function
Wear 143}(2), 307-330,1991.    pdf scan

2) Goyal, S., Ruina, A. and Papadopoulos, J.M.,
Planar Sliding with Dry Friction II: Dynamics of Motion
Wear, 143 (2), 331-352,1991     pdf scan

3) Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, Volume II, pp. 794-800, 1989.
This is a pre-final-paper summary of much of (1) and (2) above   pdf scan

4) See also a summary of some of this work on pages 130-139 of "Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation" by Matthew T. Mason, MIT Press, 2001.
  See also the papers referenced therein.

5) Some more details are also in the thesis of Goyal.


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