Recent Advances in Contact Mechanics
Subtitle: Papers Collected at the 5th Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS2009), April 28-30, 2009, Chania, Greece
By: edited by Georgios E. Stavroulakis
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics -- 56
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9783642339684
Subjects: Mechanics; Civil engineering; Engineering; Materials; Mechanical engineering; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials
Description: <p>Contact mechanics is an active research area with deep theoretical and numerical roots. The links between nonsmooth analysis and optimization with mechanics have been investigated intensively during the last decades, especially in Europe. The study of complementarity problems, variational -, quasivariational- and hemivariational inequalities arising in contact mechanics and beyond is a hot topic for interdisciplinary research and cooperation. The needs of industry for robust solution algorithms suitable for large scale applications and the regular updates of the respective elements in major commercial computational mechanics codes, demonstrate that this interaction is not restricted to the academic environment. The contributions of this book have been selected from the participants of the CMIS 2009 international conference which took place in Crete and continued a successful series of specialized contact mechanics conferences.</p>