RETRACTED: Contact analysis between rough surfaces considering the size-affected deformation behaviour of multi-scale asperities

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors-in-Chief. The authors have plagiarized parts of papers that had already appeared in: [1] Violano, G., Afferrante, L. Modeling the Adhesive Contact of Rough Soft Media with an Advanced Asperity Model. Tribol Lett 67, 119 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-019-1232-1 [2] L. Afferrante, G. Carbone, G. Demelio, Interacting and coalescing Hertzian asperities: A new multiasperity contact model, Wear, Volumes 278-279, 2012, Pages 28-33, ISSN 0043-1648, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wear.2011.12.013. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.