Johnson and Roberts (1)‡ have recently shown how a simple adaptation of the conventional disc machine can be used to measure the viscoelastic properties of lubricants under conditions of elastohydrodynamic lubrication. The present paper contains a theoretical treatment of the problem and derives operating formulae pertinent to conditions of low, finite and high Deborah number.
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