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© 2017 Elsevier BV. This is the post print version of the following article: Saikko, Vesa. 2017. Effect of contact area on the wear of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene in noncyclic pin-on-disk tests. Tribology International. Volume 114. 84-87. ISSN 0301-679X (printed). DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2017.04.020, which has been published in final form at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301679X17301834. This post-print is published with permission from Elsevier under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).