This second volume of the series Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics is the second part of the 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). Prof. Franco Pastrone and Prof. Jean-François Ganghoffer were the co-chairmen.

Latest results in mechanics of microstructured systems

Inhalt
Linear Elasticity with Couple Stresses.- Vectorial Microstructures: Applications to Fabrics and Granular Media.- Numerical Simulation of Interaction of Solitons and Solitary Waves in Granular Materials.- Multi-scale Modelling of Fracture in Open-Cell Metal Foams.- AFCs: Active-Stress vs. Active-Strain Modeling.- On Eshelby Tensors, Thermodynamics and Calculus of Variations.- Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations and Linear Heat Conduction with Memory.- Mesoscopic Mechanical Analyses of Textile Composites: Validation with X-Ray Tomography.- Mechanical Response of Helically Wound Fiber-Reinforced Incompressible Non-linearly Elastic Pipes.