10.5445/KSP/1000022790
Konyukhov, Alexander
Geometrically exact theory for contact interactions
KIT Scientific Publishing
2011
computatiobal contact mechanics
geometrical methods in mechanics
covariant contact description
en
Postdoctoral thesis
Open Access
The intuitive understanding of contact bodies is based on the geometry and adjoining surfaces. A powerful approach to solve the contact problem is to take advantage of the geometry of an analyzed object and describe the problem in the best coordinate system. This book is a systematical analysis of geometrical situations leading to contact pairs: suface-to-surface, curve-to-surface, point-to-surface a.s.o. resultingin the corresponding computational algorithms to solve the contact problem.