Phenomena occurring during a contact of two bodies are encountered in everyday life. This book focuses on the beam-to-beam contact as a specific case of the 3D solids contact. It derives a numerical formulation of frictional contact for beams with two shapes of cross-section.

Phenomena occurring during a contact of two bodies are encountered in everyday life. In reality almost every type of motion is related to frictional contact between a moving body and a ground. Moreover, modeling of simple and more complex processes as nailing, cutting, vacuum pressing, movement of machines and their elements, rolling or, finally, a numerical simulation of car crash tests, requires taking contact into account. Therefore, its analysis has been a subject of many research efforts for a long time now. However, it is author's opinion that there are relatively few efforts related to...