Current challenges in medicine and engineering are related to the application of computational methods to clinical medicine and the study of biological systems at different scales.Additionally manufacturers will be able to use computational tools and methods to predict the performance of their medical devices in virtual patients.

This book provides an overview of new mathematical models, computational simulations and experimental tests in the field of biomedical technology, and covers a wide range of current research and challenges.

The third part discusses gradient enhanced modeling, in particular quasi-brittle and ductile damage, using the gradient enhanced approach.

However, since contact can readily be interpreted as a special type of interface problem, it seems advisable not to isolate contact mechanics, but rather to address it in the context of a broader class of problems denoted as computational interface mechanics.