to Contact Mechanics.- Continuum Solid Mechanics and Weak Forms.- Contact Kinematics.- Constitutive Equations for Contact Interfaces.- Contact Boundary Value Problem and Weak Form.- Discretization of the Continuum.- Discretization, Small Deformation Contact.- Discretization, Large Deformation Contact.- Solution Algorithms.- Thermo-mechanical Contact.- Beam Contact.- Computation of Critical Points with Contact Constraints.- Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Contact Problems.

This is the second edition of the valuable reference source for numerical simulations of contact mechanics suitable for many fields. These include civil engineering, car design, aeronautics, metal forming, or biomechanics. For this second edition, illustrative simplified examples and new discretisation schemes and adaptive procedures for coupled problems are added. This book is at the cutting edge of an area of significant and growing interest in computational mechanics.

Peter Wriggers is the internationally most rocognised German scientist in the field of computer-based structural mechanics.