Anciaux, GuillaumeMolinari, Jean-François2010-11-102010-11-102010-11-10200910.1002/nme.2590https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/57335WOS:000269336500001We present a multiscale coupling method to address contact problems. The components of the model are a molecular dynamics engine, a finite element program and a coupling scheme. We validate the approach, first on Hertzian contact and then with a rough surface contacting a rigid body plane. Various measures are provided to highlight limitations and new opportunities in conducting large-scale simulations of contact brought by the proposed multiscale approach.Hertz contactmultiscaleconcurrent couplingsurface roughnessmolecular dynamicsBRIDGING DOMAIN METHODQUASI-CONTINUUM METHODFINITE-ELEMENTROUGH-SURFACEDISLOCATION NUCLEATIONELASTIC CONTACTATOMIC-SCALEFRICTIONSOLIDSINDENTATIONtext::journal::journal article::research article