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    This document summarizes an engineering project that investigated the effects of friction in daily life situations where frictional forces are important, especially regarding safety. Experiments measured the coefficient of static friction for different floor tile types and surfaces like asphalt and concrete under wet and dry conditions. The results showed tiles had lower friction when wet and rougher tiles performed better. Concrete also had higher friction than asphalt. The findings suggest using rougher floor tiles, especially outdoors, and concrete for outdoor pathways to provide safer surfaces.

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    This document summarizes an engineering project that investigated the effects of friction in daily life situations where frictional forces are important, especially regarding safety. Experiments measured the coefficient of static friction for different floor tile types and surfaces like asphalt and concrete under wet and dry conditions. The results showed tiles had lower friction when wet and rougher tiles performed better. Concrete also had higher friction than asphalt. The findings suggest using rougher floor tiles, especially outdoors, and concrete for outdoor pathways to provide safer surfaces.

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    This document summarizes an engineering project that investigated the effects of friction in daily life situations where frictional forces are important, especially regarding safety. Experiments measured the coefficient of static friction for different floor tile types and surfaces like asphalt and concrete under wet and dry conditions. The results showed tiles had lower friction when wet and rougher tiles performed better. Concrete also had higher friction than asphalt. The findings suggest using rougher floor tiles, especially outdoors, and concrete for outdoor pathways to provide safer surfaces.

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    S11078457 Final Poster Mini Project

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    This document summarizes an engineering project that investigated the effects of friction in daily life situations where frictional forces are important, especially regarding safety. Experiments measured the coefficient of static friction for different floor tile types and surfaces like asphalt and concrete under wet and dry conditions. The results showed tiles had lower friction when wet and rougher tiles performed better. Concrete also had higher friction than asphalt. The findings suggest using rougher floor tiles, especially outdoors, and concrete for outdoor pathways to provide safer surfaces.

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    Applications of Frictional Force

    School of Engineering and Physics, USP


    MM103: ENGINEERING MECH. MINI PROJECT POSTER

    Rajneel Sharma (S11075328), Milika Vucago (S11069516), Ryan Bale (S11078457)

    Abstract
    Frictional laws govern the way humans interact with their surroundings in all aspects of daily life. This research project serves to investigate the effects of friction with respect to their occurrence in daily life, i.e. in situations where the forces of friction may be important , especially with regard to safety.

    Results of Experimentation/Research
    1. Group I Surfaces (Tiles): A common surface choice for flooring in most buildings. The following graph shows the variation of the Coefficient of Static friction for different tile types under both wet or dry conditions.
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    Discussion of results
    The Coefficient of static friction was observed to suffer drastically under wet conditions. This is intuitively accurate as no doubt most people are wary of how slippery ceramic tiles are when they are wet. In this case the rougher tiles performed better and therefore would be considered safer to use under both wet and dry conditions. It as also interesting to observe that the coefficient of friction for plain concrete was greater than that of Asphalt under both wet and dry conditions. This may be misleading though as Asphalt is the better choice of road surface for car tire rubber. This may be due to the different treatment car-tire rubber undergoes during manufacturing processes.

    Friction: What is it?


    When an object is in motion on a surface, it encounters resistance due to the way it reacts with its environment. We call this resistance the Force of friction. Frictional force may be determined by multiplying the normal force (n) exerted on the surface (weight force), by a Coefficient of Friction (where is the Coefficient of static friction). s Unfortunately, Coefficients of friction vary upon the materials in contact and therefore are not set values. Coefficients of friction must be determined empirically.
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    Dry
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    Wet
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    Interesting note on Friction


    Contrary to popular belief, surface roughness is only a minor contributing factor to friction. In actuality Friction is often higher between smoother surfaces. E.g. Insects can walk on glass windows, an extremely smooth material.

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    Smooth Tile

    Rough Tile

    Project Objective
    To compare the coefficients of friction between two different Groups of common surfaces found in practical usage. The surfaces will be tested under different conditions.

    2. Group II Surfaces (Other): Two other common surfaces utilized in most building applications are Asphalt and Concrete. The following graph shows the variation of the Coefficient of Static friction for these surface materials, both wet and dry.
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    After analyzing the results obtained by experimentation with different surface materials, it is reasonable to recommend that rougher tiles be used for flooring purposes, especially in outdoor conditions. Also, concrete would be the best choice of material for outdoor pathways as well as sheltered pathways which are of considerable length. This would provide a much safer walking surface for rubber soled shoes.

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    Conclusion
    In hindsight, it may be safely concluded that the objectives of the project were fully met, as the frictional coefficients of different surfaces under varying conditions were successfully compared. Also evidence based recommendations were made on the optimal choice of surface material with a view to safety.

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    Concrete-Rubber

    Asphalt-Rubber

    References
    Serway, R., & Jewett, J. (2010). Physics for Scientists and engineers. Belmont: Mary Finch.

    Fig. 1 Frictional Force

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