Frictional Contact Mechanics

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to summarize recent advances in the field of frictional contact mechanics. This short term covers a whole range of phenomena related to contact of deformable solids in the presence of friction. Particular research topics include:

- “Laws” or models of friction, comprising both modifications of classical approaches to solid friction and modern theory- or experiment-based relationship linking friction forces or stresses, contact geometries and parameters, contact surfaces states, physical mechanisms related to friction, etc.;

- Analytical solutions to contact problems with friction for certain contact geometries and conditions;

- Semi-analytical methods in frictional contact mechanics built up as a generalization of analytical solutions for complex loading histories;

- Purely numerical methods of frictional contact mechanics based on detailed numerical representation of stress and displacement fields in vicinity of contact and applicable to various contact geometries and loading histories;

- Tribological aspects of contact, i.e., highly interdisciplinary approaches and phenomena related to moving contact surfaces, including description of lubrication, wear, temperature, environmental, scale, and other effects;

- Dynamic behavior of materials in contact including friction-induced instabilities and acoustic emission.

We especially encourage contributions aimed at engineering and industrial applications of friction-related phenomena focusing both on the prevention of negative and the use of positive effects.

Dr. Vladislav Aleshin
Guest Editor

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