Mechanics of microstructured solids : cellular materials, fibre reinforced solids and soft tissues ; [compendium of reviewed articles presented at the 11th EUROMECH-MECAMAT conference entitled "Mechanics of microstructured solids: cellular materials, fibr

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'Universit� 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. Content: Front Matter....Pages - Class-Jump Phenomenon for Physical Symmetries in Bi-dimensional Space....Pages 1-11 Analysis and Optimisation of Interfaces for Multi-material Structures....Pages 13-20 One-Dimensional Microstructure Dynamics....Pages 21-28 Strain Localization in Polyurethane Foams: Experiments and Theoretical Model....Pages 29-38 A Finite Element Approach of the Behaviour of Woven Materials at Microscopic Scale....Pages 39-46 Nonlinear Problems of Fibre Reinforced Soft Shells....Pages 47-56 A 3D Stochastic Model of the Cell-Wall Interface during the Rolling....Pages 57-70 Plane Waves in Linear Thermoelastic Porous Solids....Pages 71-80 Viscoelastic Modeling of Brain Tissue: A Fractional Calculus-Based Approach....Pages 81-90 Modelling of the Mechanical Behaviour of Regular Metallic Hollow-Sphere Packings under Compressive Loads....Pages 91-99 Modelling the Smooth Muscle Tissue as a Dissipative Microstructured Material....Pages 101-108 Mechanical Response of Helically Wound Fiber-Reinforced Incompressible Non-linearly Elastic Pipes....Pages 109-117 Essentially Nonlinear Strain Waves in Solids with Complex Internal Structure....Pages 119-126 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 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.