SoftFrac organises a Minisymposium at WCCM-ECOMAS 2026, July

The 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026) will be held in Munich, Germany from July 19—24, 2026. We are pleased to invite you and your interested colleagues and students to the minisymposium:

MS-238: Mechanics of Soft Solids: Perspectives on Inelasticity and Failure

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to:  

– Constitutive modelling—continuum and micromechanical—for soft materials, including fracture, damage, rate effects, and instabilities;   

– Fracture- and contact-driven phenomena, including cutting and cavitation;   

– Coupled problems and multiphysics failure in soft materials;   

– Data-driven and hybrid modelling approaches for soft material behaviour and failure;   

– Experimental characterization of soft materials and tissues, including fracture;   

– Numerical methods for simulating discontinuities and complex failure patterns at large deformations, e.g., cohesive zone, phase-field, and configurational forces models;   

– Applications, e.g., in biomedical engineering, surgery, adhesives, and food industry.

For further questions, please contact Miguel Ángel Moreno-Mateos (miguel.moreno@fau.de).

Hope to see you in Munich!