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 …

Adhesive (eg van der Waals) forces were not generally taken into account in contact
mechanics until 1971, when Johnson, Kendall and Roberts (JKR) generalized Hertz'solution …

This paper summarizes the submissions to a recently announced contact-mechanics
modeling challenge. The task was to solve a typical, albeit mathematically fully defined …

This article gives an overview of different approaches for modeling the dynamics of
mechanical joints in assembled structures. It contains a literature review pertaining to joint …

Finite-element methods are used to study nonadhesive, frictionless contact between elastic
solids with self-affine surfaces. We find that the total contact area rises linearly with the load …

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 …

This work describes a non-statistical multi-scale model of the normal contact between rough
surfaces. The model produces predictions for contact area as a function of contact load, and …

Recent direct implementation of asperity theories is reinterpreted here to formulate an
improved version of the Greenwood and Williamson (GW) theory with the inclusion of …

A method is developed for placing bounds on the electrical contact conductance between
contacting elastic bodies with rough surfaces. An analogy is first established between …

It has been shown experimentally that boundary friction is proportional to load (commonly
known as Amontons' law) for more than 500 years, and the fact that it holds true over many …