Linear Elasticity with Couple Stresses -- Vectorial Microstructures: Applications to Fabrics and Granular Media -- Numerical Simulation of Interaction of Solitons and Solitary Waves in Granular Materials -- Multi-scale Modelling of Fracture in Open-Cell Metal Foams -- AFCs: Active-Stress vs. Active-Strain Modeling -- On Eshelby Tensors, Thermodynamics and Calculus of Variations -- Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations and Linear Heat Conduction with Memory -- Mesoscopic Mechanical Analyses of Textile Composites: Validation with X-Ray Tomography -- Mechanical Response of Helically Wound Fiber-Reinforced Incompressible Non-linearly Elastic Pipes.

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.