Interaction between contact behaviour and vibrational response for dry contact system

This work wants to provide insights on the coupling between contact behaviour (local scale) and vibrational response (global scale) which brings to different contact scenarios arising in dry frictional systems. A newer setup, named TriboWave, has been developed in order to reproduce and investigate the system response to frictional contact, under well-controlled boundary conditions. The experimental results highlighted how a simple frictional system can switch from stable friction-induced vibrations to unstable vibrations, i.e. either macroscopic stick–slip instabilities or mode coupling instabilities. The effect of the contact surface roughness on the reproduced frictional scenario has been investigated too.