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Monday

Lectures

    0. Foreword

    1 & 2. Contact mechanics I & II

    1.1 Analytical solution of Flamant problem

    2.1 1-DOF frictional problem: solution

Practical work

    1. Integration of Flamant solution

    2. Integration of Flamant solution: solution

    3. Integration of Boussinesq & Cerutti

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Tuesday

Lectures

    3. Contact and Mechanics of Materials

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

    4. Surface Roughness

    4.2 Mechanics of Rough Contact

Practical work

    4. Viscoelastic indentation , no animation solution

    5. Roughness: original code

    5.2 Roughness analysis

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Wednesday

Lectures

    5. Fretting and Wear

    6. Computational Contact Mechanics

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

Practical work

    6. Fretting problem

    6.2 Fretting problem: solution

    7. Tiny FEM code

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Thursday

Lectures

    7. Lubrication and Sealing

Practical work

    6. 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.