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It is shown that the static friction between a soft metal hemisphere and a flat surface increases with the length of time the surfaces have been in contact and that this increase is due to creep. Such creep might account for the difference between static and dynamic coefficients of friction.
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R.T. Spurr (1955) studied this question.
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