This treatise is concerned with the stresses and deformation of solid bodies in contact with each other, along curved surfaces which touch initially at a point

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline forged and shaped by the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share i

This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distincti

This book describes the solution of contact problems with an emphasis on idealized (mainly linear) elastic problems that can be treated with elementary analytic

Topics of this book span the range from spatial and temporal discretization techniques for contact and impact problems with small and finite deformations over i