ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an easy conceptual picture of the contact-induced deformation of a brittle solid. Contact issues are very important in our daily life. If we walk on the road or a car runs on the path, the activity involves contact issues. For many advanced applications, the grinding and polishing of the components made of brittle solids is a major issue of technical, scientific, and academic interest. But, basically, what are these processes? These are nothing but contact processes between two solids. Here, we take a very humble approach to simulate the everyday contact issues by using two solid bodies to understand the damage evolution. The solid body that actually applies the load is called the indenter, and the other solid body that actually undergoes deformation under the loaded indenter is called the sample. The deformation of this sample is the area of interest of this book.
