Contact Modeling for Solids and Particles

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. State-of-the-Art Computational Methods for Finite Deformation Contact Modeling of Solids and Structures

   • Alexander Popp

   Pages 1-86

3. Advanced Discretization Methods for Contact Mechanics

   • Peter Wriggers

   Pages 87-123

4. Finite Wear and Soft Elasto-Hydrodynamic Lubrication: Beyond the Classical Frictional Contact of Soft Solids

   • Stanisław Stupkiewicz

   Pages 125-176

5. Contact Modeling in the Discrete Element Method

   • Jerzy Rojek

   Pages 177-228

The book conveys modern techniques and the latest state-of-the-art with regard to the most fundamental aspects of computational contact mechanics. However, since contact can readily be interpreted as a special type of interface problem, it seems advisable not to isolate contact mechanics, but rather to address it in the context of a broader class of problems denoted as computational interface mechanics. The book gives a clear understanding of the underlying physics of interfaces, and a comprehensive insight into the current state-of-the-art and selected cutting-edge research directions in the computational treatment of interface effects. It focuses on the modeling of friction, wear, lubrication, cohesive interfaces, grain boundaries, phase boundaries, fracture, thermo-mechanics and particulate contact (e.g. granular media). Also the most important computational aspects are addressed, including discretization techniques for finite deformations, solution algorithms for single- and multi-processor computing environments, multi-scale approaches, discrete element models and multi-physics problems including contact and interface constraints. Among the computational techniques covered in this book are finite element (FEM) and boundary element (BEM) methods, atomistic models, molecular dynamics (MD), discrete element methods (DEM), coupling approaches for multi-scale simulations, and tools for an efficient automated FEM code generation.

• finite element methods
• boundary element methods
• discrete element methods
• finite deformation contact mechanics
• micromechanics of interfaces

• Institute for Mathematics and Computer-Based Simulation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

  Alexander Popp

• Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Peter Wriggers

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