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All lectures and practical sessions will be available here.

Monday

Lectures

    0. Foreword

    1. Contact mechanics I

Extra documents

    a. Analytical solution of Flamant problem

    b. 1-DOF frictional problem: solution

Practical work

    1. Integration of Flamant solution

    2. Integration of Flamant solution: solution

    2. Integration of Boussinesq & Cerutti

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Tuesday

Lectures

    3. Contact and Mechanics of Materials

    4. Surface Roughness

Practical work

    3. Viscoelastic indentation , no animation solution

    4. Roughness: original code , solution

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Wednesday

Lectures

    5. Contact of Rough Surfaces

    6. Computational Contact Mechanics

Additional material

    a. V. Yastrebov "Numerical Methods in Contact Mechanics" book

    b. Chapter "Méthodes numériques en contact micromécanique" (in French) (roughness, friction, plasticity)

    c. Chapter "Numerical Methods in Micromechanical Contact" (English translation from French) (roughness, friction, plasticity)

Practical work

    5. Contact of Elastic Surfaces

    6. Tiny FEM code with contact, solution

Thursday

Lectures

    7. Fretting and Wear (S. Fouvry & H. Proudhon)

    8. Lubrication and Sealing

Additional material

    a. From Navier-Stokes to Reynolds equation (in French)

    b. From Navier-Stokes to Reynolds equation (in English)

Practical work

    7. Fretting problem: solution

    8. Solving Reynolds equation

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Prereading

Lecture 1: Applications of Contact Mechanics

In this lecture we show a lot of applications of contact mechanics in both natural and engineering systems. The accompanying videos are not included in the pdf file, but are available on YouTube:
see also granular simulation on the brazil nut effect.