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Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 96 (2016) 18 –28 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids journal homepage: /locate/jmps Strain gradient plasticity analysis of elasto-plastic contact between rough surfaces H. Song a, E. Van der Giessen a,n, X. Liu b,n a Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands b State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: From a microscopic point of view, the real contact area between two rough surfaces is the Received 16 May 2016 sum of the areas of contact between facing asperities. Since the real contact area is a Received in revised form fraction of the nominal contact area, the real contact pressure is much higher than the 4 July 2016 nominal contact pressure, which results in plastic deformation of asperities. As plasticity Accepted 6 July 2016 is size dependent at size scales below tens of micrometers, with the general trend of Available online 7 July 2016 smaller being harder, macroscopic plasticity is not suitable to describe plastic deformation Keywords: of small asperities and thus fails to capture the real contact area and pressure accurately. Rough surface Here we adopt co