Multiscale Consulting is your partner for understanding and solving problems related to Contact Mechanics efficient and quick. Many technological problems involve Contact Mechanics. It usually plays a key role in optimizing a product or understanding a mechanism. However it is a very complex topic involving many length scales which may require help from experts. We offer many years of experience and detailed know-how in contact mechanics and related fields.

 

Multiscale Consulting researchers are working at the cutting edge of this whole field in the last couple of years. We have developed new methods to describe, analyze and understand contact mechanics in great detail which resulted in novel tools for our customers. Our activities started about 15 years ago when Dr. Persson introduced his theories to calculate real area of contact, interfacial separation and stress distribution in the contact, and many other important quantities in the context of contact formation between two solids.

 

The findings of Persson have led to numerous publications in peer-reviewed, international journals. Most of these articles you may find in our online library.

 

The theories of Persson have been applied to many different and important technological problems which helped to solve our customers questions. Here we give a short summary of our expertise and the fields on which we have worked on already.

 

 

Contact Mechanics   The main theory approach	Rubber Friction   Modelling friction mechanisms	Leakage of Seals   Our leak-rate model	Bio Adhesion   Why do Geckos climb on walls?
Heat Transfer   How is heat transferred?	Fluid Squeeze-out   Expelling fluids from a contact	Skin Friction & Syringes   Tribology and humans	Theory Validation   Testing the theory of Persson