Contact modeling of rubber bodies is based either on viscoelasticity, nonlinear elasticity or adhesion. This paper advances a simple approach to the analysis of the contacts involving incompressible, nonlinear elastic bodies and reports experimental results on rubber to justify this approach. A good agreement is found between theory and experiments.
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Contact Mechanics
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