RETRACTED: Canonical dual approach for contact mechanics problems with friction

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The following article has been included in a multiple retraction:Canonical Dual Approach for Contact Mechanics Problems with Friction; Vittorio Latorre, Simone Sagratella, David Y Gao.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/20/1081286514566534.abstractIn 2015 SAGE were made aware of concerns regarding the Special Issue of Mathematics & Mechanics of Solids on Advances in Canonical Duality Theory, guest-edited by Professor David Gao.At the request of the Guest Editor, the Special Issue has been retracted, due to conflict of interest regarding Professor Gao’s role as Guest Editor and co-author on a number of submitted papers. In addition the peer review process was less rigorous than the journal requires. The Guest Editor takes full responsibility for the retraction.The following articles that were due to appear in the Special Issue have therefore been retracted:Canonical Duality-Triality: Bridge between Nonconvex Analysis/Mechanics and Global Optimization in complex systems; David Y Gao, Ning Ruan, and Vittorio Latorre.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/02/24/1081286514566533.abstractCanonical Dual Approach for Contact Mechanics Problems with Friction; Vittorio Latorre, Simone Sagratella, David Y Gao.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/20/1081286514566534.abstractCanonical Duality Theory for Solving Non-Monotone Variational Inequality Problems; Guoshan Liu, David Y Gao, Shouyang Wang.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/02/04/1081286514566535.abstractDouble Well Potential Function and Its Optimization in The n-dimensional Real Space. Part I; Shu-Cherng Fang, David Y Gao, Gang-Xuan Lin, Ruey-Lin Sheu, Wen-Xun Xing.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/02/24/1081286514566704.abstractDouble Well Potential Function and Its Optimization in The n-dimensional Real Space. Part II; Yong Xia, Ruey-Lin Sheu, Shu-Cherng Fang, Wenxun Xing.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/02/09/1081286514566723.abstractAnalytic Solutions to 3-D Finite Deformation Problems Governed by St Venant-Kirchhoff Material; David Y Gao and E. Hajilarov.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/06/1081286515591084.abstractTriality Theory and Complete Post-buckling Solutions of Large Deformed Beam by Canonical Dual Finite Element Method; Kun Cai, David Y Gao, Qinghua Qin.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/28/1081286515591085.abstractGlobal Solutions to Spherically Constrained Quadratic Minimization via Canonical Duality Theory; Yi Chen, David Y Gao.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/08/1081286515577122.abstractUnified Canonical Duality Methodology for Global Optimization; Vittorio Latorre, David Y Gao and N. Ruan.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/06/1081286515591305.abstractA Framework of Canonical Dual Algorithms for Global Optimization; Xiaojun Zhou, David Y Gao, Chunhua Yang.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/22/1081286515592190.abstractCanonical Duality Theory for Solving Nonconvex/Discrete Constrained Global Optimization Problems; Ning Ruan, David Y Gao.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/08/1081286515591087.abstractGlobal Optimization Solutions to a Class of Non-convex Quadratic Minimization Problems with Quadratic Constraints; Yubo Yuan.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/06/1081286515591086.abstractOn Minimal Distance between Two Non-Convex Surfaces; Daniel Morales-Silva, David Y Gao.http://mms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/27/1081286515592949.abstractThe Editor-in-Chief and SAGE strive to uphold the very highest standards of publication ethics and are committed to supporting the high standards of integrity of Mathematics & Mechanics of Solids. Authors, reviewers, editors and interested readers are encouraged to consult SAGE’s ethics statements and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) website for guidelines on publication ethics.