“…/H The second point we need to take into account is that, in the plate-plate configuration, the yield stress provided by the software is overestimated by a factor of 4/3 Laun et al, 2010). The data collected in different publications (Kordonski and Golini, 1999;Chin et al, 2001;Lim et al, 2004;Jang et al, 2005;Cheng et al, 2009;Ierardi and Bombard, 2009;Laun et al, 2010;Kim et al, 2012;Bombard et al, 2015;Esmaeilnezhad et al, 2017;Dong et al, 2018;Plachy et al, 2018) are reported in Table S1 and plotted in Figure 1B (blue diamonds). There is a considerable scatter of the data, but it appears clearly that the affine model with the calculation of forces through FEM (red curve), provides the best prediction compared to both Equation (6) and Equation (7).…”