Program > General sessions

ESMC are always organised around Mini Symposia (see here for the complete list of focussed mini symposia). If you do not find a symposium suitable for submitting your abstract, you also have the possibility to submit to the so called "GENERAL SESSIONS" listed below.

The General Sessions for this conference have been organised into eight main areas. Most of these are traditionnal for ESMC series. We have added tribology for ESMC2025 to give it a typically lyonnese flavour. The eight main areas are as follows :

Mechanics of Materials
Multiphase Materials; Composite Materials; Hybrid Materials; Crystalline Materials; Micromaterials; Nanomaterials; Additive Manufactured Materials; Surface Coatings; Smart Materials; Material Modelling and Constitutive Laws; Phase Transitions; Damage, Fatigue and Fracture

Biomechanics and Medical Implants
Computational Biomechanics; Cell Mechanics; Hard and Soft Tissue Mechanics; Biomaterials and Tissue Engineered Structures; Mechanobiology; Mechanics of Implants and Devices for Orthopaedic, Osteochondral, Cardiovascular, Peripheral, Neural, Respiratory and other applications; Bioresorbable Implants; Smart Implants and Devices

Continuum Mechanics
Elasticity, Plasticity, Viscoelasticity and Viscoplasticity; Damage, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics; Contact Mechanics and Tribology; Localisation and Instabilities; Micro- and Nanomechanics; Homogenisation; Non-classical and Non-local Theories; Continua and Structures; Active Materials

Experimental Mechanics
Experimental Analysis; Experimental Methods; Imaging Modalities; Instrumentation; In-situ Methods; Non-destructive Evaluation; Inverse Methods

Computational Mechanics
Finite Element Methods; Extended and Enriched FE Methods; Discretisation; Meshless Methods; Fluid-Structure Interactions; High Performance Computing; Damage and Fracture Modelling; Computational Imaging and Visualisation; Optimisation and Design; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Solid Mechanics; Probabilistic Mechanics; Modelling in Additive Manufacturing

Dynamics, Waves and Metamaterials
Dynamics; Waves; Metamaterials; Acoustics; Mechanical Vibration and Control; Multibody Dynamics; Non-linear Dynamics; Non-linear Waves

Structural Mechanics
Beams and Rods; Plates and Shells; Composite Structures; Structural Stability; Structural Testing; Offshore Structures; Seismic Analysis

Tribology
Contact Mechanics, Lubrication and Rheology, Wear Mechanisms, Fundamentals of Friction, Fretting/Fatigue, Tactile and Perception