Call for Abstracts – ESMC 2025 mini-symposium on Mechanics of Fibrous Materials and Textiles

Prof. Dr. Stepan Lomov (KU Leuven, Belgique) et Dmytro Vasiukov, enseignant-chercheur au Centre d’Enseignement, de Recherche et d’Innovation Matériaux & Procédés d’IMT Nord Europe organisent le Mini-Symposium 1.1. Mechanics of Fibrous Materials and Textiles à la 12e Conférence européenne de mécanique des solides (ESMC 2025), qui se tiendra du 7 au 11 juillet 2025 à Lyon (France).

=> Les auteurs intéressés sont invités à soumettre un résumé avant le 20 novembre 2024 sur le site web de la conférence : https://esmc2025.sciencesconf.org/

Résumé : Fibrous materials including gels, biological tissue, paper and cellulose networks, nonwovens, fiber composites and textiles are ubiquitous in biology and engineering. These materials display a complex mechanical response governed by strong nonlinearities associated with large deformations, contacts between fibers, fiber reorganization during loading, strong anisotropy in the presence of preferential fiber alignment, the presence of a non-linear matrix, presence of embedded active components, etc. In composites, quasi-inextensibility in the fiber direction is coupled with a relatively small stiffness in the fiber orthogonal direction. Significant progress has been made towards understanding and modeling the mechanics of these materials. This symposium addresses experimental, theoretical and computational aspects of the mechanics of fibrous materials and brings together researchers working on diverse applications of these materials.