'… this is an excellent reference book for graduate-level students and professionals interested in non-colliding impacts. The rich theoretical content of this book alongside recent advances in experimental and numerical methods can provide engineers in particular with necessary knowledge and tools to design more effectively for complex impact problems.' Iman Mohagheghian, The Aeronautical Journal
1. Introduction to analysis of low-speed impact; 2. Collinear rigid body impact; 3. Planar or 2-D rigid body impact; 4. 3-D impact of rough rigid bodies; 5. Tangential compliance in planar impact of rough bodies; 6. Continuum modeling for local deformation neat contact area; 7. Wave propagation from impact on slender deformable bodies; 8. Generalized impact analysis of multibody systems; 9. Viscoelastic or viscoplastic impact; 10. Impact against flexible structures; 11. Propagating transformations of state in self-organizing systems; 12. Impact of sports balls.
