Emerging Spatial and Temporal Discretization Methods in Contact and Impact Mechanics -- Reliability of Micromechanical Contact Models: a Still Open Issue -- Modern Approaches on Rolling Contact -- Homogenization and Multi-Scale Approaches for Contact Problems -- Contact on Multiprocessor Environment: from Multicontact Problems to Multiscale Approaches -- Numerical Soil Mechanics Experiments using Discontinuous Deformation Analysis.

Topics of this book span the range from spatial and temporal discretization techniques for contact and impact problems with small and finite deformations over investigations on the reliability of micromechanical contact models over emerging techniques for rolling contact mechanics to homogenization methods and multi-scale approaches in contact problems. Furthermore, solution algorithms for single- and multi-processor computing environments, enabling methods that span from multi-contact to multi-scale approaches are discussed together with numerical experiments related to soil mechanics using discontinuous deformation analysis.