Download or read book Contact and Fracture Mechanics written by Pranav H. Darji and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains two sections: Chapters 1-7 deal with contact mechanics, and Chapters 8-13 deal with fracture mechanics. The different contributions of this book will cover the various advanced topics of research. It provides some needed background with respect to contact mechanics, fracture mechanics and the use of finite element methods in both. All the covered chapters of this book are of a theoretical and applied nature, suitable for the researchers of engineering, physics, applied mathematics and mechanics with an interest in computer simulation of contact and fracture problems.