Modeling the friction between pages in a book

Engineers at EPFL and École Polytechnique in France analyzed the friction between pages in a book and the mechanical force needed to bend them. Drawing on their experiments, they developed a new theoretical model for predicting the elasto-frictional behavior of stacked layers.

[oBiz]

now what if we try to bend a pile of books

[moutarde]

vous auriez pu laver le clavier quand même