Dr. George G. Adams is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department (Secondary Appointments with Electrical and Computer Engineering and with Civil and Environmental Engineering) at Northeastern University where he has served on the faculty since 1979. His areas of expertise are in contact mechanics and tribology; MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), especially RF MEMS switches and micromirrors; nano-mechanics (including materials characterization, adhesion, and mechanical and electrical contacts); and the dynamic response of structures to moving loads (including friction-induced vibrations and other instabilities). He has published over 80 refereed journal papers and has had numerous research grants and contracts with government and industry.
Articles
A parameter study of separation modes of adhering microcontacts (with Yan Du, Nicol E. McGruer, and Izhak Etsion), Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing Publications (2008)
A finite element model was developed to study adhesion of elastic-plastic microcontacts in a previous...
Separation modes in microcontacts identified by the rate dependence of the pull-off force (with L. Chen, N. E. McGruer, and Y. Du), Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing Publications (2008)
We report the observation of two distinct modes of rate-dependent behavior during contact cycling tests....
Contact resistance study of noble metals and alloy films using a scanning probe microscope test station (with L. Chen, H. Lee, Z. J. Guo, N. E. McGruer, K. W. Gilbert, S. Mall, and K. D. Leedy), Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing Publications (2007)
The proper selection of electrical contact materials is one of the critical steps in designing...