“…The measured contact width values were 0.104, 0.073, 0.065, and 0.054 mm for 100, 50, 30, and 10 N load, respectively. The deformation area is consistent with the expected Hertz contact area for a glass tube with 6 mm outer diameter and 4 mm inner diameter pressing into an infinite glass plate . Based on these contact width measurements, the calculated maximum force per particle varied from 2.3, 1.7, 1.1, and 0.5 μN for applied loads 100, 50, 30, and 10 N, respectively.…”