This special volume of the series Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics is a compendium of reviewed articles presented at the 11th EUROMECH-MECAMAT conference entitled "Mechanics of microstructured solids: cellular materials, fibre reinforced solids and soft tissues", which took place in Torino (Italy) in March 10-14, 2008, at the Museo Regional delle Scienze. This EUROMECH-MECAMAT conference was jointly organized by the Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Torino, Italy and the INPL Institute (LEMTA, Nancy-Université, France). The conference covered most of the mechanical and material aspects, grouped in the following four sessions Fibre reinforced materials, Soft biological tissues, Generalized continua: models and materials, and Non-linear wave propagation.

Zusammenfassung

This is a compendium of reviewed articles presented at the 11th EUROMECH-MECAMAT conference entitled, "Mechancis of microstructured solids: cellular materials, fibre reinforced solids and soft tissues." It provides all the latest information in the field.

Inhalt
Class-Jump Phenomenon for Physical Symmetries in Bi-dimensional Space.- Analysis and Optimisation of Interfaces for Multi-material Structures.- One-Dimensional Microstructure Dynamics.- Strain Localization in Polyurethane Foams: Experiments and Theoretical Model.- A Finite Element Approach of the Behaviour of Woven Materials at Microscopic Scale.- Nonlinear Problems of Fibre Reinforced Soft Shells.- A 3D Stochastic Model of the Cell-Wall Interface during the Rolling.- Plane Waves in Linear Thermoelastic Porous Solids.- Viscoelastic Modeling of Brain Tissue: A Fractional Calculus-Based Approach.- Modelling of the Mechanical Behaviour of Regular Metallic Hollow-Sphere Packings under Compressive Loads.- Modelling the Smooth Muscle Tissue as a Dissipative Microstructured Material.- Mechanical Response of Helically Wound Fiber-Reinforced Incompressible Non-linearly Elastic Pipes.- Essentially Nonlinear Strain Waves in Solids with Complex Internal Structure.