The mathematical theory of contact mechanics is a growing field in engineering and
scientific computing. This book is intended as a unified and readily accessible source for …

The first edition of this book was published in 2009 to provide the essentials of
elastoplasticity for students, engineers and scientists in the field of applied mechanics …

A model for mechanical contact including friction, wear and heat generation is proposed. By
defining an internal state variable for the wear process, a generalized standard model for …

This book contains a systematical analysis of geometrical situations leading to contact pairs--
point-to-surface, surface-to-surface, point-to-curve, curve-to-curve and curve-to-surface …

Fretting is a special type of wear, which appears at the contact interface between two solids
subjected to constant normal load and periodic tangential forces. Although most studies on …

The constitutive equations for the irreversible mechanical phenomena, eg the plastic
deformation and the sliding between solids with the friction have been studied over the …

Friction anisotropy is an important property of many surfaces that usually facilitate the
generation of motion in a preferred direction. Such surfaces are very common in biological …

Anisotropy and heterogeneity of friction and wear can result from anisotropic roughness of
engineering surfaces and from anisotropic and heterogeneous microstructures present in …

Over a century of scientific research on the sliding friction of ice has not been enough to
develop an exhaustive explanation for the tribological behavior of frozen water. It has been …

The present study deals with the solution of the fully three‐dimensional contact/friction
problem taking into account microstructural characteristics of the surfaces. An incremental …