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
Summary
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