“…The detailed facts such as the time-dependent increase of static friction during stationary contact [Dokos, 1946;Dieterich, 1972], the continuous reduction of friction from static friction to dynamic friction with ongoing slip displacement [Rabinowicz, 1951 ], the velocity dependence (particularly velocity weakening) of steady state friction, and the continuous change of friction with slip when velocity is changed, all had been discovered and incorporated in the friction law [e.g., Dieterich, 1978] before the work by Dieterich [1979]. Even the concept of memory of the interface, which would be generalized as state variable later [Ruina, 1983], had already been recognized [Rabinowicz, 1958] by then. However, they were all about how and why friction, in the sense of threshold strength, changes.…”