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[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This proceeding volume consists of the papers presented at the fourth international conference on contact mechanics, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1999. The conference series first started in Southampton, U.K. (1993) and continued in Ferrara, Italy (1995), and in Madrid, Spain (1997), focusing on the advancement of computational methods in contact mechanics. The present volume offers a compilation of 51 full length individually authorized technical papers on contact problems for a variety of machine elements such as gears, bearings, brakes, metal-forming tools, absorbers and joints, divided into following four sections: 1. Mechanical models; 2. Numerical aspects; 3. Engineering applications; 4. Mathematical models. The 12 papers presented in section 1 deal with: the influence of adhesive bonding on the flexural interaction between a thin plate and an isotropic elastic half space; model of friction for steel metal form; crack growth in gear teeth flanks; ``mode lock-in'' and friction modelling; analysis of contact stiffness; deformation of asperities in a rough contact; contact modelling of plane interference joint using FEM; adhesional phenomena; thermomechanical coupling; equal layes in contact with friction; crack faces' interaction model, and contact problem of elastic shells. 13 papers in section 2 deal with numerical aspects of the contact problem. The section contains papers on: large slipping contact algorithm for elastic problems with friction; cylindrical rigid punch problem; elastic contact near-rigid inclusion; optimal gear design; stress field in contact area of gear flank influenced by EHD-lubrications; non-Hertzian contact model; simulation of hard particle impact; analysis of plates; adaptive finite element techniques for contact problems; parabolic finite element in contact problems; stabilization of two-dimensional contact analysis; integral equation of elastodynamics; two-dimensional boundary element methods. Section 3 has 20 full length papers devoted to engineering applications of contact problems. The applications include: soil reinforcement by geotextiles; mechanical behaviour of fracture processes in granular media; energy absorbers; roughness-induced frictional contact; oblique cracks in fretting fatigue; load carrying capacity of a rolling contact; prosthesis hip joint implants; wear corrosion in quasi-human body environment; contact analysis of real surfaces; contact of cellular materials; bolted joint connections; caustic image simulation; curved couplings; spring-damping parameters of plastic pads; wear of hot working tools; fretting fatigue; impact energy absorbers; geologically layered media; wheel/rail contact interaction. Section 4, mathematical models, comprises of six papers which describe: a mixed boundary value problem for an elastic medium containing a disc inclusion; effect of interface thermal resistance in two-layer composite media; finite element rolling contact algorithm; rolling contact patch under pure spin; thin viscoplastic bonding layer contact joints weakly loaded in the normal direction. On balance, this is a useful reference book for researchers in this field.