Computational Contact Mechanics

This is the second edition of the valuable reference source for numerical simulations of contact mechanics suitable for many fields like civil engineering, car design, aeronautics, metal forming, or biomechanics. Boundary value problems involving contact are of great importance in industrial applica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wriggers, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • to Contact Mechanics
  • Continuum Solid Mechanics and Weak Forms
  • Contact Kinematics
  • Constitutive Equations for Contact Interfaces
  • Contact Boundary Value Problem and Weak Form
  • Discretization of the Continuum
  • Discretization, Small Deformation Contact
  • Discretization, Large Deformation Contact
  • Solution Algorithms
  • Thermo-mechanical Contact
  • Beam Contact
  • Computation of Critical Points with Contact Constraints
  • Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Contact Problems.