contact mechanics

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring to your notice the mini-symposium on "Multi-scale modeling in contact mechanics" at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://usnccm.org/). The conference will be held at Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 25-29, 2011.

Dear all,

Herewith I want to announc the release of CONTACT version 10.2.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

Dear all,

 The programme for the course on "Contact mechanics with the CONTACT software", to be held October 28th-29th 2010 in Delft, the Netherlands, is now available via the registration form on our website www.kalkersoftware.org.

Best regards,

Edwin Vollebregt

Dear all,

 On Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of October 2010, we will organise a course on using the CONTACT software at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The aims of the course are:

The Graduate School MUSIC (Multiscale Methods for Interface Coupling) invites to its first Summer School on Multiscale and Multiphysics Modelling of Interfaces at Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany, from 15 to 17 September 2010.

Dear all,

Herewith I would like to announce that we have decided to make our CONTACT software publicly available. You can obtain a free copy at the web-site www.kalkersoftware.org. We hope that the software is beneficial to you. We further hope that you give us helpful feedback in return.

Dear Colleague,
the IV European Conference on Computational Mechanics-ECCM 2010, Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems in Engineering, organized by ECCOMAS, will take place in Paris, France, May 16-21 2010 (see the Congress website http://www.eccm2010.org/  for more information).
During this conference, we are organizing a Minisymposium entitled: 

CMIS09

5th Contact Mechanics International Symposium

April 28-30, 2009, Chania, Greece

www.cmis2009.tuc.gr

 organized by

Prof. G.E. Stavroulakis

Technical University of Crete

For those interested in a classical subject like contact mechanics, here are a couple of recent papers published in August.  One is an extension of the Greenwood Williamson theory of rough contact, and the other is a linear perturbation solution of the classical Carter rolling contact problem for a rolling cylinder, when the surface is corrugated and hence there are oscillations in both normal and tangential loads.

 

http://www.contactmechanics.org/

Delft 22 - 24 October

Chairmen:    

Tom Scarpas     Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Patrick Selvadurai     McGill University, Canada

You may remember that I promised some time ago to discuss each of the topics mentioned by Ken Johnson in his Timoshenko Medal speach. Here I take rail corrugation. Rail corrugation has been noticed at least for 100 years, but (particularly short pitch one in the range 20÷80 mm) has been considered an enigma because measured corrugation wavelength did not relate well with wear instabilitymodels.

Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure of seeing a mechanics seminar delivered "tag-team" by Ken Johnson and Jim Greenwood. (I know several people have thought I was a bit mad for jumping "across the pond" but there are really some amazing benefits of being part of the Cambridge Engineering faculty!)