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Contact processes take place on the surface, and, therefore, are described by boundary conditions. However, these are the boundaries or surfaces of mechanical bodies or structures, and one has to describe the evolution of the mechanical state of the body, as well. The problems, in their classical formulation, consist of the constitutive laws, the equations of motion and the relevant initial and boundary conditions. And contact enters naturally via the boundary conditions.
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Shillor, M., Sofonea, M., Telega, J.J. 2 Evolution Equations, Contact and Friction. In: Models and Analysis of Quasistatic Contact. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44643-9_2
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