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Boundary value problems involving contact are important for industrialapplications in both mechanical and civil engineering such as structuralfoundations bearings metal forming processes rubber sealings drillingproblems crash analysis of cars rolling contact between car tyres and theroad cooling of electronic devices and many more. Other applications arerelated to biomechanical engineering design where human joints implants orteeth are considered. Due to this variety contact problems today are combinedeither with large elastic or inelastic deformations including timedependentresponses. Thermal coupling may also have to be considered and even stabilitybehaviour has to be linked to contact such as wrinkling arising in metalforming problems.The topic of computational contact is described in depth here providingdifferent formulations algorithms and discretisation techniques for contactproblems that have been established in the geometrically linear and nonlinearranges. This book provides the necessary continuum mechanics background.Special geometrical relations needed to set up the contact constraints arederived and constitutive equations stemming from tribology which are valid atthe contact interface are discussed in detail without going into a numericaltreatment. Solid and beam contact is considered as is contact of unstablesystems and thermomechanical contact. The algorithmic aspects cover a broadrange of solution methods. Additionally adaptive discretisation techniques forcontact analysis are presented as a modern tool for engineering designsimulations.This book applies to a wide variety of industrial applications startsfrom a sound continuum mechanics background introduces new discretisation techniques and algorithms and includes thermomechanical considerations and adaptive methods.Computational Contact Mechanics has been written not only for graduateMasters an «
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