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

Prof. Dr. Stepan Lomov (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Dr. Dmytro Vasiukov (Centre for Materials and Processes, IMT Nord Europe, France) are organizing the Mini-Symposium 1.1. Mechanics of Fibrous Materials and Textiles at the 12^th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2025), which is planned on 7-11 July 2025, in Lyon (France).

=> Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract by November 20, 2024 at the conference website: https://esmc2025.sciencesconf.org/

Summary: 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.