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Technical Briefs Contact of Nonspherical Elastic Bodies Transmitting Tangential Forces P. J. Vermeulen, P. J. Vermeulen William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar K. L. Johnson K. L. Johnson Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Author and Article Information P. J. Vermeulen William Marsh Rice University, Houston, Texas K. L. Johnson Engineering Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England J. Appl. Mech. Jun 1964, 31(2): 338-340 (3 pages) https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3629610 Published Online: June 1, 1964 Article history Received: August 2, 1963 Revised: December 17, 1963 Online: September 15, 2011
Vermeulen et al. (1964) studied this question.