Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The contact-impact problem and its general formulation
2: Numerical solution procedures
3: Constraint methods applied in contact problems with small displacement
4: Contact-impact problems with material non-linearities
5: Frictional contact-impact problems
6: Contact-impact problems with large displacements and large rotations
7: Contact-impact problems with shell and beam structures
8: Explicit solution procedures with the Lagrance multiplier
9: Contact-searching algorithms
10: Engineering applications
11: Miscellaneous topics
Appendix: Possible errors in the calculation of contact tractions