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Monday, January 22
9:00 - 10:30    Lecture: Contact Mechanics I
10:45 - 12:15    Practice: Integration of Flamant solution
12:15 - 13:30    Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00    Lecture: Contact Mechanics II
15:15 - 16:45    Practice: Stress field under sliding indenter
Tuesday, January 23
9:00 - 10:30    Lecture: Contact and Mechanics of Materials
10:45 - 12:15    Practice: Inelastic deformation in contact
12:15 - 13:30    Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00    Lecture: Surface roughness and contact of rough surfaces
15:15 - 16:45    Practice: Characterisation of rough contact
Wednesday, January 24
9:00 - 10:30    Lecture: Fretting and Wear (H. Proudhon)
10:45 - 12:15    Practice: Solving fretting problem using Flamant solution
12:15 - 13:30    Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00    Lecture: Computational contact mechanics: Finite Element Method
15:15 - 16:45    Practice: Coding your contact element in a toy-FEM code
Thursday, January 25
9:00 - 10:30    Lecture: Lubrication and sealing
10:45 - 12:15    Practice: Solving Reynolds equation with finite difference method
12:15 - 13:30    Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00    Lecture (continuation): Mechanics of Rough Contact
15:15 - 16:45    Practice (continuation): Coding your contact element in a toy-FEM code
Friday, January 26
9:00 - 9:50    Nanoscale Wear (Ramin Aghababaei, Aarhus University, Denmark)
9:50 - 10:40    Tribology of Tyres at Michelin (Philippe Bussetta)
10:40 - 11:30    Contact at Safran Aircraft Engines (Karim Demmou)
11:30 - 12:20    3rd body, oxidation & wear (Pierre Arnaud, MINES)
12:20 - 13:45    Lunch break
13:45 - 16:30    Online exam
16:30 - 16:40    Conclusion and farewell word