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 applications in engineering such as bearings metal forming processes
rubber seals drilling problems crash analysis of cars rolling contact between car tires and
the road cooling of electronic devices... Other applications are related to biomechanical
engineering design where human joints implants or teeth are of consideration. Due to this
variety contact problems are today combined either with large elastic or inelastic
deformations including time dependent responses. Thermal coupling also might have to be
considered. Even stability behaviour has to be linked to contact. The topic of computational
contact is described in depth providing an up-to-date treatment of different formulations
algorithms and discretisation techniques for contact problems which are established in the
geometrically linear and nonlinear range. This book provides the necessary continuum mechanics
background which includes the derivation of the contact constraints. Constitutive equations
stemming from tribology which are valid at the contact interface are discussed in detail.
Discretization schemes for small and finite deformations are discussed in depth. Solid and beam
contact is considered as well as contact of unstable systems and thermomechanical contact. The
algorithmic side covers a broad range of solution methods. Additionally adaptive discretisation
techniques for contact analysis are presented as a modern tool for engineering design
simulations. The present text book is written for graduate Masters and PhD students but also
for engineers in industry who have to simulate contact problems in practical application and
wish to understand the theoretical and algorithmic background of contact treatment in modern
finite element systems. For this second edition illustrative simplified examples and new
discretisation schemes as well as adaptive procedures for coupled problems are added.
