CONFERENCE TOPICS
Concerning computational contact mechanics, the global research trend shows a deep interest in several different aspects. Among them we can identify new discretization techniques, multiscale approaches ranging from the macro- to the nano-scale, robust and innovative solution schemes as well as data-driven methods. Also, research interest has expanded into the wide area of coupled multifield problems such as, e.g., thermo-electro-mechanical contact problems, interface problems for rigid bodies, failure processes in heterogeneous materials, textile and laminated composites and bio-mechanics applications.
Hence, the topics of interest are wide-ranging. The most important conference topics (in alphabetical order) can be listed as follows:
- Adhesion, debonding and failure processes;
- Beams and shells in contact;
- Constraint enforcement methods;
- Contact algorithms efficiency for single- and multi-processor computing environments;
- Contact constitutive laws;
- Contact at the nano-scale;
- Contact detection algorithms;
- Contact modeling in bio-mechanics;
- Data-driven methods in contact mechanics;
- Discretization techniques of the contact surfaces;
- Discrete element methods;
- Elastohydrodynamic lubrication;
- Friction and wear;
- High performance computing (HPC) in contact mechanics;
- Multi-field problems with contact constraints;
- Multi-scale approaches for contact constitutive laws;
- Rolling contact.