Contact Mechanics

Numerical dynamics of granular materials.- Measurements of impacts with friction.- Formulation and well-posedness of unilateral multibody dynamics.- Collisions in systems made of rigid bodies.- Impacts with global dissipation index at reentrant corners.- Understanding impact through continuous medium vibrations.- Solving rocking block problems with multiple impacts.- A controllability criterion for linear juggling mechanical systems.- On integrating stiff multibody dynamics with contact and friction.- Analysis of systems with multiple frictional contacts.- Initiation of friction instability on a plane fault system.- An example of stick-slip waves.- Longitudinal waves in elastic rods with discontinuous cross sections.- The influence of contact properties on friction-induced brake vibrations.- Analysis of eigenvalue problems modelling friction: sufficient conditions of non-uniqueness for the elastic equilibrium.- Adhesion of viscoelastic spherical solids.- A model of adhesion added to contact with friction.- Analysis of a “walking” punch.- Phenomenological model of friction accounting for subsurface plastic deformation in metal forming.- Thermoelastic instabilities in automotive disc brakes — finite element analysis and experimental verification.- Friction coefficient evolution during wear tests related to infrared emission.- A contact formulation for electrical and mechanical resistance.- The real area of contact — a combination of experimental and numerical approaches.- Prediction of wheel wear for rail vehicles — methodology and verification.- Multi-body modeling of paper calendering unit by contact dynamics formulation.- Existence and uniqueness for quasistatic contact problems with friction.- Augmented lagrangian methods for a class of nonconvex contactproblems in structural mechanics.- Approximation of quasistatic Signorini problems with local friction by a mixed method.- A beam in adhesive contact.- Coulomb fluid-solid interface law in lubrication.- Elastodynamic friction problem with a “surface inertia” perturbation.- Solvability of thermo-viscoelastic contact problems with Coulomb friction and nonlinear heat conductivity.- A simplified model of impact.- Convergence for a time discretization of dynamic contact problems with friction.- Solution methods for structural optimization in contact rod problems.- Unilateral contact, friction and adhesion: 3D cracks in composite materials.- The unilateral frictional contact of a piezoelectric body with a rigid support.- Contact between 3D beams with rectangular cross-sections.- Algorithms for thermoelastic wear problems.- Convergence studies for 3D smooth frictional contact elements based on the quartic Bézier surfaces.- Multicontact structures and parallel computing.- A new approach to the 2D transient rolling contact problem.- Numerical approximation of the elastic-viscoplastic contact problem using noncoinciding finite element meshes.- Contact in the Arlequin framework.- Appendix A. Scientific program of the Third Contact Mechanics International Symposium.- Appendix B. List of participants in the Third Contact Mechanics International Symposium.