Mechanics of Microstructured Solids [electronic resource] : Cellular Materials, Fibre Reinforced Solids and Soft Tissues / edited by J.-F. Ganghoffer, Franco Pastrone.

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.

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.