This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

Impact is a complex phenomenon that occurs when two or more bodies undergo a collision.
This phenomenon is important in many different areas––machine design, robotics, multi …

Contact problems are central to Solid Mechanics, because contact is the principal method of
applying loads to a deformable body and the resulting stress concentration is often the most …

The main interest of this study is in the fracture initiation in graded coatings under sliding
contact loading. The structural component under consideration is a metallic substrate …

This paper reviews the state-of-the-art contact force models for non-spherical particles,
which describe the relationship between the contact force and the geometrical, material, and …

Recent advances by the authors in analytical methods for the analysis of plane fretting
fatigue (FF) contact problems are described, and new consequences for FF damage are …

A computational contact algorithm is presented to solve both the normal and tangential
contact problems that describe fretting contacts between two elastic half-spaces. The …

During fretting, the removal of material by wear leads to an increase of contact stress in the
stick zone. If elastic behavior is assumed, the boundary between stick and slip zones does …

An elastic contact model for three-dimensional layered or coated materials under coupled
normal and tangential loads, with consideration of partial slip effects, has been developed in …

The paper considers elastic contact of rough surfaces and develops a simple analytical
expression for the stiffness of the contact under tangential loading, which predicts that the …