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Tuesday, February 24
| 9:00 - 10:30 | | Lecture: Mechanical Contact |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | | Practice: Integration of Flamant solution and elastic indentation |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | | Lecture: Contact and Mechanics of Materials |
| 15:15 - 16:45 | | Practice: Viscoelastic indentation |
Wednesday, February 25
| 9:00 - 10:30 | | Lecture: Surface roughness |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | | Practice: Characterisation of rough surfaces |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | | Lecture: Physics of Rough Contact |
| 15:15 - 16:45 | | Practice: Solving rough contact problems in Tamaas code |
Thursday, February 26
| 9:00 - 10:30 | | Lecture: Computational Contact Mechanics: Finite Element Method |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | | Practice: Coding your contact element in a toy-FEM code |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | | Lecture: Friction and adhesion |
| 15:15 - 16:45 | | Practice: Study a stress field induced by a frictional sliding |
Friday, February 27
| 9:00 - 10:30 | | Lecture: Lubrication and sealing |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | | Practice: Solving Reynolds equation by the finite difference method |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 16:00 | | Written exam |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | | Concluding remarks |