Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems [Hardcover]

This carefully edited book offers a state-of-the-art overview on formulation, mathematical analysis and numerical solution procedures of contact problems. The contributions collected in this volume summarize the lectures presented by leading scientists in the area of contact mechanics, during the 4th Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS) held in Hannover, Germany, 2005.

Contact mechanics was and is an important branch in mechanics which covers a broad field of theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations. In this carefully edited book the reader will obtain a state-of-the-art overview on formulation, mathematical analysis and numerical solution procedures of contact problems. The contributions collected in this volume summarize the lectures presented during the 4^th Contact Mechanics Interantional symposium (CMIS) held in Hannover, Germany, 2005, by leading scientists in the area of contact mechanics.

Numerical methods.- Mortar-based surface-to-surface contact algorithms in large deformation solid mechanics.- From inexact active set strategies to nonlinear multigrid methods.- On a geometrical approach in contact mechanics.- On the discretization of contact problems in elastodynamics.- Mortar methods for contact problems.- Contact mechanics for analysis of fracturing and fragmenting solids in the combined finite-discrete element method.- Numerical analysis of a dynamic viscoelastic contact problem with damage.- An energy-conserving algorithm for nonlinear elastodynamic contact problems  Extension to a frictional dissipation phenomenon.- DDM-based sensitivity analysis and optimization for smooth contact formulations.- On the modeling of contact/impact problems between rubber materials.- The quadrilateral parametric contact element based on the moving friction cone formulation.- 3D beam-to-beam contact within coupled electromechanical fields: a finite element model.- A study of symbolic delS