This book contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Hanover, Germany, in November 2006. Coverage includes new mathematical techniques, new discretization techniques, advanced applications of unilateral contact to masonry structures, decohesion analysis and tractive rolling of tires. The book provides a good overview of modern techniques and state-of-the-art discretizations schemes applied in contact mechanics.

Multigrid Methods for Unilateral Contact Problems with Friction.- Contact Dynamics with Lagrange Multipliers.- Some Advances in Mathematical Programming Method for Numerical Simulation of Contact Problems.- Finite Element Analysis of Nonsmooth Frictional Contact.- Energy-Momentum Conserving Schemes for Frictionless Dynamic Contact Problems.- Symmetrization of Various Friction Models Based on an Augmented Lagrangian Approach.- Adaptive BEM for Contact Problems with Friction.- Recent Extensions of Mortar-Based Contact Formulations: Lubrication Modeling and Parallel Implementations.- A Coupled Contact and Decohesion Analysis of Laminated Beams.- Smooth Frictional Contact between Beams in 3D.- Nonlinear Boundary Problems for a Cylinder.- Evolution from the Hertzian Contact Model to Non-Hertzian Conditions for Fast Dynamic Simulations.- A Fully Implicit Approach for the Numerical Treatment of Tractive Rolling.- A Study on 3D Contact of Rough Surfaces Considering Finite Elastoplasticity.- Frictional Contact for Pile Installation.- The Influence of Contact Pressure on the Dynamic Friction Coefficient in Cylindrical Rubber-Metal Contact Geometries.- Modular Modelling of Dynamic Systems with Elastomer Contacts.- Two FEM Approaches for the Prediction and Quantification of “Stick-Slip” Phenomena on Rubber-Metal Sliding Contacts.- Contact Mechanics of Wearing out Solids.- Modelling of Grain Boundaries Contact in Metals.- Segregation of Particulate Material Using the Discrete Element Method.- Unilateral Contact and Damage Analysis in Masonry Arches.- Discontinuous Numerical Analysis of Masonry Vaults.