Welcome to contact.​engineering

This is a web-based application that allows you to: Store and organize surface measurements, characterize surface topography, analyze contact properties and (if you wish) share your data with collaborators or even publish your datasets. For more information on this site please read the accompanying open access paper.

Combine analyses on multiple measurements into a complete statistical representation of a surface. Click to see an example.
Carry out contact mechanical calculations with the boundary element method. Click to see an example.

Browse published digital surface twins

A digital surface twin combines multiple measurements of a real-life surface, together with descriptive metadata.

Browse public library of digital surface twins

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