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Figure 1 illustrates the necessary description of the geometry. The principal radii of curvature are R′1, R″1 for the first surface and R′2, R″2 for the second surface: they are the maximum and minimum values of the radius of curvature of all possible cross-sections of the profile.
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K. L. Johnson, “Contact Mechanics”, Cambridge University Press (1985).
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Johnson, K.L. (1992). Introduction to Contact Mechanics: a summary of the principal formulae. In: Singer, I.L., Pollock, H.M. (eds) Fundamentals of Friction: Macroscopic and Microscopic Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2811-7_30
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