Welcome to a new forum on iMechanica which is specifically designed as a "Contact Mechanics Forum". You do not need to register to view the postings on this forum, but you must register (it's free) in order to post something. The posting can be an idea, an announcement of an upcoming conference, an announcement of a journal article (see http://imechanica.org/node/265), the pdf of the manuscript form of the paper can be posted in many cases (see http://romeo.eprints.org/ for a list of journals which permit it), or almost anything related to contact mechanics.

Our forum should be interested in discussing briefly new results, key unsolved problems, open research directions, new avenues, and involve all areas in contact mechanics such as contact elasticity, plasticity, indentation testing, adhesion, friction models, interfacial phenomena in MEMS, nanocontacts, rolling contact fatigue, fretting fatigue, corrugation, and wear. Also if anyone has topics to upload, or notes, or even worked examples or teaching exercise, please feel free to add this material to the forum.

Please use your full name to register for a free account(http://www.imechanica.org/user/register). It will take you about one minute. You will then receive an email that contains the password which you can use to sign on.

Best wishes,

Mike Ciavarella, George Adams, and Jim Barber