Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline forged and shaped by the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share i

Topics of this book span the range from spatial and temporal discretization techniques for contact and impact problems with small and finite deformations over i

This treatise is concerned with the stresses and deformation of solid bodies in contact with each other, along curved surfaces which touch initially at a point

This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distincti

Computational contact mechanics is a broad topic which brings together algorithmic, geometrical, optimization and numerical aspects for a robust, fast and accur