Contact Problems in Elasticity: A Study of Variational Inequalities and Finite Element Methods

Introduction Signorini's problem Minimization methods and their variants Finite element approximations Orderings, Trace Theorems, Green's Formulas and korn's Inequalities Signorini's problem revisited Signorini's problem for incompressible materials Alternate variational principles for Signorini's problem Contact problems for large deflections of elastic plates Some special contact problems with friction Contact problems with nonclassical friction laws Contact problems involving deformations and nonlinear materials Dynamic friction problems Rolling contact problems Concluding comments.