5. Conclusion
Effects resulting from finite deformations accompanying lubri- cated contact in the soft-EHL regime have been studied using a fully-coupled geometrically nonlinear finite-element model. The results obtained for two representative soft-EHL problems indicate that the solution may be significantly influenced by finite deformations of the contacting bodies. To illustrate that, the results of the present fully nonlinear model have been compared to the results obtained for a geometrically linear model which employs linear elasticity and neglects finite configuration changes, and thus corresponds to the classical EHL theory.