Dynamic loading, experimental aspects

The calculated energetics also allow one to estimate the normal load, thereby providing access to the friction coefficient once the friction force is known. This method, albeit crude, has been shown to yield good results when compared with experiments in cases such as graphite sheets sliding past one another.68 However, one should realize that approximations in the determination of the normal load, the assumption that friction only depends on energy barriers, and the lack of a consideration of dynamical aspects of system may lead to significant deviations from experimental results for many other systems. 

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