CONFERENCE TOPICS

The congress addresses a wide panorama of topics in the area of contact mechanics in order to reinforce the interactions and collaborations between various communities :

• models, interface laws,wear, tribological modeling, cohesive zone models, rolling ;
• emerging computational approaches : methods, algorithms and numerical analysis ;
• mathematical analysis ;
• dynamic contact problems, instabilities ;
• micromechanics of contact and multiscale approaches ;
• multiphysics and thermomechanical coupling ;
• granular materials and rigid bodies ;
• contact modeling in mechanical and civil engineering, biomechanics and geomechanics.
  
  CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
  
  
• Giorgio Zavarise (Chairman), University of Salento, Italy
• Michel Raous (Co-Chairman), Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique CNRS, Marseille, France
• Peter Wriggers (Co-Chairman), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
  
  SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY
  
  M. L. De Bellis University of Salento, Italy
  
  CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
  
  Daniela Dell’Anna
  Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Salento
  Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce – ITALY
  phone : +39 0832 297414
  fax : +39 0832 297592
  e-mail : cmis2018@unisalento.it