Dear all,

Herewith I want to announce the release of the frictional rolling contact model CONTACT version 12.1.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

• Achieved a 100-fold speedup for solving larger normal contact problems.
• Improved the documentation of the viscoelastic part of CONTACT and
  provided an example of its use.
• Distinguished free and premium features in the software, the latter
  requiring a valid license file.

For the full release-notes or more information on the program refer to the website www.kalkersoftware.org.

Regards, Edwin

Dear all,

 At our website we maintain a list of upcoming conferences on contact mechanics and related fields, e.g. solid mechanics, tribology, railway vehicle dynamics, etc.

Which conferences and other events do you attend? Send me a note and I'll add them to the list.

Best wishes,

Edwin Vollebregt

Dear all,

On Monday January 30th to Wednesday February 1st, 2012, we will organise a
course on using the CONTACT software at Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands.

The aims of the course are:

Herewith I announce to you that we created a discussion forum for topics related to our contact mechanics software on our website
www.kalkersoftware.org .
The idea is to facilitate discussions and information exchange between users,
and between users and developers.

As a start I initiated two topics:
 1) collect pointers to interesting information sources w.r.t. (rolling)
contact mechanics;
 2) discuss the possible extension of CONTACT w.r.t. more elaborate friction laws.

With best wishes,
Edwin Vollebregt

Dear all,

Herewith I want to announc the release of CONTACT version 10.2.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

Dear all,

 The programme for the course on "Contact mechanics with the CONTACT software", to be held October 28th-29th 2010 in Delft, the Netherlands, is now available via the registration form on our website www.kalkersoftware.org.

Best regards,

Edwin Vollebregt

Dear all,

 On Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of October 2010, we will organise a course on using the CONTACT software at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The aims of the course are:

Dear all,

Herewith I would like to announce that we have decided to make our CONTACT software publicly available. You can obtain a free copy at the web-site www.kalkersoftware.org. We hope that the software is beneficial to you. We further hope that you give us helpful feedback in return.