# Mechanical behavior of contacts

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/mechanical-behavior-of-contacts/678>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/mechanical-behavior-of-contacts/678 "2020-12-09T11:03:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![chaimaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@chaimaa](https://community.freefem.org/u/chaimaa)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:03am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/mechanical-behavior-of-contacts/678/1 "2020-12-09T11:03:08Z")

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Hello,  
Does anyone, know how to implement mechanical behavior of contacts. i want to know how to affect more than material to the components of the system.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![frederichecht](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/frederichecht/32/15_2.png) [@frederichecht](https://community.freefem.org/u/frederichecht)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/mechanical-behavior-of-contacts/678/2 "2020-12-09T16:28:43Z")

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See the talk in freefem day of friday 11

10h05 - 10h30 **Houssam Houssein** (LJLL, Arithim) :  
A symmetric algorithm for solving mechanical contact problems using FreeFEM ([The abstract](https://github.com/FreeFem/FreeFem-days/raw/master/2020/slides/HH.pdf))

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**Author:** ![Ayataka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Ayataka](https://community.freefem.org/u/Ayataka)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/mechanical-behavior-of-contacts/678/3 "2025-10-23T01:46:58Z")

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Dear Hecht and Chaimaa

Is the code publicly available?