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FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF RUBBER FLOORING MAT FITTED BY RECTANGULAR TREADS

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There is an increasing demand to reduce the risk of slipping and enhance walking safety in indoors and workplaces. Wet floors are the main source of slip accidents.  Rubber mats have become a popular flooring materials due to the increased comfort, by adding a cushioning effect to the knees when walking. In the present work, the effect of rectangular and cross treads introduced in the rubber mats on friction coefficient when sliding against footwear is investigated.
 
It was found that friction coefficient displayed slightly decreased with increasing tread groove at dry, detergent wetted and oily sliding due to the decreased contact area accompanied to the increased groove width of the rubber. At water wetted sliding friction coefficient remarkably increased with increasing the tread groove. Oily sliding displayed very low values of friction coefficient. As the tread width decreased the friction values decreased due to the decrease of the contact area at dry, detergent wetted and oily sliding. At sliding against water wetted flooring, friction coefficient significantly increased with increasing both of the width of the tread and the groove due to the easier water escape from the contact area, where the groove volume was relatively higher. Friction coefficient of the displayed by cross tread rubber sliding against dry, detergent wetted and oily sliding showed drastic decrease with increasing tread groove. At sliding against water wetted flooring, friction coefficient displayed by cross tread rubber significantly increased with increasing the tread groove and displayed relatively higher values than that displayed by the longitudinal treads tested in the present work.

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10.21608/jest.2014.80261

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Friction coefficient, footwear, rubber mat, rectangular, cross treads

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Y. M.

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El-Sherbiny

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Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, EGYPT.

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M. A.

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Ramadan

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Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, EGYPT.

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W. Y.

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Ali

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Faculty of Engineering, Taif University, P. N. 888, Al-Taif, K. S. A.

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11

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2

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2014-04-01

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2014-02-05

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2014-04-01

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39

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52

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2090-5882

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2090-5955

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JEST_Volume 11_Issue 2_Pages 39-52.pdf

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Journal of the Egyptian Society of Tribology

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FRICTIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF RUBBER FLOORING MAT FITTED BY RECTANGULAR TREADS

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22 Jan 2023