COLLISIONS OF RIGID BODIES, DEFORMABLE BODIES AND FLUIDS

Abstract

The system made of two solids is deformable because the relative position of the solids may change. This fact can be applied to a complex problem of mechanics-the collision theory. The major findings are constitutive laws, which are coherent from the thermodynamics point of view. They give robust and productive models and numerical methods, for instance-for rock avalanches and collisions of solids and fluids.