Rubber hardness readings with an indenter depend upon thickness of the rubber specimen. This effect has been known and studied since first attempts to develop precision methods to determine hardness. Classical elasticity theory accounted satisfactorily for indentation relations with thick rubber but thickness dependence was treated as an empirical correction.
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