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Abstract

The main idea of the velocity description is to describe kinematics of the contact in the specially defined local surface coordinate system which is related to the closest point projection procedure. All necessary operations for the description of the contact problems: kinematics, all differential operations etc. are considered from the geometrical point of view. While exploiting the differential geometry of the contact surfaces a consistent formulation for the contact problem, including friction is obtained. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)