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An efficient, scalable, parallel algorithm for treating material surfa
ce contacts in solid mechanics finite element programs has been implem
ented in a modular way for multiple-instruction, multiple-data (MIMD)
parallel computers. The serial contact detection algorithm that was de
veloped previously for the transient dynamics finite element code PRON
TO3D has been extended for use in parallel computation by utilizing a
dynamic (adaptive) load balancing algorithm. This approach is scalable
to thousands of computational nodes(1).