Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an opportunity for international researchers to share and review recent advances used in finite element modeling in computational friction contact mechanics. Numerical modeling presents many challenges in mathematics, mechanical engineering, computer science, computers, etc. The finite element method applied in solid mechanics was designed by engineers with the idea of being able to simulate numerical models in order to reduce the design costs for prototypes, tests and measurements.

The method was initially validated only by measurements, but which gave encouraging results. After the discovery of the Sobloev spaces, the results mentioned above were obtained, and today, numerous researchers are working on improving this method. Some of the method’s application fields in the domain of mechanics of the solid include mechanical engineering, machine and device design, civil engineering, aerospace and automotive engineering, robotics, etc.

Frictional contact is a complex phenomenon which has led to research in mechanical engineering, computational contact mechanics, composite material design, rigid body dynamics, robotics, etc. A good simulation requires that the dynamics of contact with friction be included in the formulation of dynamic systems that can approximate the complex phenomena that occur. To solve these linear or nonlinear dynamic systems that can often have non-differentiable terms, or discontinuities, software that includes high-performance numerical methods as well as high-computing-power computers are needed.

All interested researchers are kindly invited to contribute to this Special Issue with their original research articles, short communications and review articles.

Prof. Dr. Nicolae Pop
Prof. Dr. Marin Marin
Prof. Dr. Sorin Vlase
Guest Editors

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• finite element analysis
• weak solutions
• convergence results
• shape and topology optimization
• elastic material
• composites
• boundary control
• active vibration control
• contact problems
• variational inequalities
• friction laws
• static
• kinetic or sliding friction
• collisions
• isotropic and anisotropic friction
• optimal control
• non-differentiability
• stick–slip contact
• frictional quasistatic contact
• penalization and regularization