sentences:  model came to be known as the JKR (after Johnson, Kendall and Roberts) model for adhesive elastic contact.This rejection proved to be instrumental in the development of the Tabor and later Maugis parameters that quantify which contact model (of the JKR and DMT models) represent adhesive contact better for specific materials.Further advancement in the field of contact mechanics in the mid-twentieth century may be attributed to names such as Bowden and Tabor.