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Liu, X, Carre, MJ, Zhang, Q, Lu, Z, Matcher, SJ and Lewis, R (2017) Measuring Contact Area in a Sliding Human Finger-Pad Contact. Skin Research and Technology, 24 (1). pp. 31-44. ISSN 1600-0846
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Abstract
Background/Purpose
The work outlined in this paper was aimed at achieving further understanding of skin frictional behaviour by investigating the contact area between human finger-pads and flat surfaces.
Methods
Both the static and the dynamic contact areas (in macro- and micro-scales) were measured using various techniques, including ink printing, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Digital Image Correlation (DIC).
Results
In the studies of the static measurements using ink printing, the experimental results showed that the apparent and the real contact area increased with load following a piecewise linear correlation function for a finger-pad in contact with paper sheets. Comparisons indicated that the OCT method is a reliable and effective method to investigate the real contact area of a finger-pad and allow micro-scale analysis. The apparent contact area (from the DIC measurements) was found to reduce with time in the transition from the static phase to the dynamic phase while the real area of contact (from OCT) increased.
Conclusions
The results from this study enable the interaction between finger-pads and contact object surface to be better analysed, and hence improve the understanding of skin friction.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is the accepted version of the following article: Liu X, Carré MJ, Zhang Q, Lu Z, Matcher SJ, Lewis R. Measuring contact area in a sliding human finger-pad contact. Skin Res Technol. 2017;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/srt.12387, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/srt.12387 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1103 Clinical Sciences |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Electronics & Electrical Engineering (merged with Engineering 10 Aug 20) Engineering |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2017 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 11:28 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1111/srt.12387 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6611 |
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