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Contact mechanics, an Uncommon card
Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A central distinction in contact mechanics is between stresses acting perpendicular to the contacting bodies' surfaces and frictional stresses acting tangentially between the surfaces.
- Normal contact mechanics or frictionless contact mechanics focuses on normal stresses caused by applied normal forces and by the adhesion present on surfaces in close contact, even if they are clean and dry.
- Frictional contact mechanics emphasizes the effect of friction forces.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Contact mechanics article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Contact mechanics
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Contact mechanics (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Reibungsphysik, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
