Mechanics of Microstructured Solids 2 : Cellular Materials, Fibre Reinforced Solids and Soft Tissues

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'Universit� di Torino, Italy and the INPL Institute (LEMTA, Nancy-Université, France). Prof. Franco Pastrone and Prof. Jean-François Ganghoffer were the co-chairmen. Content: Front Matter....Pages - Linear Elasticity with Couple Stresses....Pages 1-8 Vectorial Microstructures: Applications to Fabrics and Granular Media....Pages 9-20 Numerical Simulation of Interaction of Solitons and Solitary Waves in Granular Materials....Pages 21-28 Multi-scale Modelling of Fracture in Open-Cell Metal Foams....Pages 29-36 AFCs: Active-Stress vs. Active-Strain Modeling....Pages 37-48 On Eshelby Tensors, Thermodynamics and Calculus of Variations....Pages 49-62 Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations and Linear Heat Conduction with Memory....Pages 63-70 Mesoscopic Mechanical Analyses of Textile Composites: Validation with X-Ray Tomography....Pages 71-78 Mechanical Response of Helically Wound Fiber-Reinforced Incompressible Non-linearly Elastic Pipes....Pages 79-87 Back Matter....Pages - 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 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. 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.