Abstract
We begin our consideration of contact phenomena with the normal contact problem. Without physical contact, there are no other contact phenomena, no friction and no wear. Therefore, normal contact can be regarded as a basic prerequisite for all other tribological phenomena. The solution to the adhesive contact problem, the tangential contact problem, and contact between elastomers can also be reduced to the non-adhesive normal contact problem. In this sense, the non-adhesive contact problem forms a fundamental basis of contact mechanics.
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