Research Reports 2004@Up date@2006.7.10
 
Abstracts of Papers     
  1. Plastic Deformations of Micro-Spheres by Solidified Lubricants and Lubricants' Shear Characteristics under Very High Pressure (Part 1) | Observation of Plastically-Deformed Micro-Spheres | [in Japanese], Yuichi NAKAMURA, Yutaka ISHIBASHI* and Yasushi KUROSAKI: Tribologist, 49-6, pp. 518-524, 2004.

  2. Fractal analysis of adhesion on tool surface in compression of aluminum strips by using AFM [in Japanese], Masahito MATSUI, Yasushi KUROSAKI and Yusuke MIYAUCHI: Journal of Japan Institute of Light Metals, 54-1, pp. 9-13, 2004.

    Adhesion properties in simple compression of aluminum strips are analyzed in the micro/nanometer range by employing the zeroset and power spectrum fractal analyses. An atomic force microscope (AFM) is used to estimate the fractal dimensions. It is found that the adhesion and tool and specimen surfaces have fractal structure. Various fractal dimensions obtained for the adhesion and tool and specimen surfaces are compared to each other and discussed. When the surface roughness of tool is same, the ratio of the total adhesion area depends on the fractal dimension. Though the AFM apparatus is difficult to distinguish the adhesion particles from the tool surface, the power spectrum dimension has possibility of distinguishing the adhesion particles from the tool surface. Finally, a method for computer simulation of the nanometer scale surface structure is presented, and satisfactory images are constructed.

  3. Nanofractal Analysis on Material Surfaces Using AFM, Mir Behdad Khamesee, Yasushi Kurosaki, Masahito Matsui and Kenichi Murai: Materials Transactions, 45-2, pp. 469-478, 2004.

    The surface structures of four materials (a pure aluminum sheet, an aluminum alloy sash, a thickness gauge and a magnetic tape) are observed on the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and analyzed by one-dimensional fractal analyses. It is confirmed for all the surfaces that they have a self-affined fractal property under a resolution of 1nm. The two-dimensional fast Fourier transformation (2D-FFT) analysis is also applied to these surfaces and their characteristics are clarified. The power spectrum model for surface simulation is proposed and its validity is confirmed by experimental results. A method for simulating surface structure of any materials is presented, and its validity is shown on some materials whether in-plane isotropic or anisotropic. A computer aided engineering (CAE) system composed of 2D-FFT and inverse FFT (IFFT) for quantitative estimation of surface nanostructures is advanced and applied to various surface problems. It enables the mass data of material surface to compress into only three parameters.

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