Numerical study of the electrical response from a mechanical model describing interactions into a slipping multi-contact interface

Abstract

We report a numerical study accounting for the electrical response of a slipping multi-contact interface and of their variations with the sliding speed. We characterize these variations by analyzing the voltage noise across the contact from a mechanical model based on the roughness interaction. Our model focuses only on the mechanical aspects of the slipping interface and explores its electrical consequences (electrical noise) versus the sliding speed. Numerical results are compared with experimental data of the resistance noise versus sliding speed: we find a good agreement between theory and experiments, which opens ways to the development of the electro-mechanic devices monitoring.