Models and Analysis of Quasistatic Contact: Variational Methods (Hardcover, 2004)

Modelling: Evolution Equations, Contact and Friction.- Additional Effects Involved in Contact.- Thermodynamic Derivation.- A Detailed Representative Problem.- Models and Their Variational Analysis: Mathematical Preliminaries.- Elastic Contact.- Viscoelastic Contact.- Viscoplastic Contact.- Slip or Temperature Dependent Frictional Contact.- Contact with Wear or Adhesion.- Contact with Damage.- Miscellaneous Problems and Conclusions: Dynamic, One-Dimensional and Miscellaneous Problems.- Conclusions, Remarks and Future Directions.- References.- Index.