ABSTRACT
As explained in Chapter 1, a dry contact is a special case of lubricated contact. Elastic dry contact is an important and fundamental problem not only because its mechanism is relatively simple that is considered as a foundation for understanding more complex interfacial phenomena but also due to the fact that many practical issues can be simplified to and treated as those of dry elastic contacts when the deformation is small and the influence of hydrodynamic lubrication is weak or none at the interface.
