“…The influence of the interstitial medium filling the interface gaps on the mechanical behavior of bodies has been studied by Machyshyn and Nagórko (2003), Slobodyan et al (2014), Kozachok et al (2017), Malanchuk et al (2017), Serednytska et al (2019) (gas-filled gaps), Evtushenko and Sulim (1981), Kuznetsov (1985), Kit et al (2003), and (liquid-filled gaps). A number of works studied the influence of liquid bridges in interface gaps on contact interaction when the remainder of the gap is filled with a vacuum (Peng and Bhushan, 2002;Boer, 2007;Xue and Polycarpou, 2007;Persson, 2008;Wang et al, 2009) or with a gas (Martynyak and Slobodyan, 2008;Slobodyan, 2012;Kozachok et al, 2016;Kozachok and Martynyak, 2018). The normal contact approach and contact compliance of the bodies with periodically grooved or wavy surfaces and medium-filled interface gaps was investigated by Kozachok et al (2018a,b).…”