ESIS Newsletter December 2025

(both in vivo and in vitro), constitutive equations of their behaviour and advanced numerical simulation schemes. It also covers structural integrity of medical devices (implants, prostheses, stents, scaffolds, etc.) and their interaction with cells and biological tissues as well as bio-inspired and biomimetic materials and structures. The topics of the Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: • Structural integrity of implants and medical devices (orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, etc.) • Fatigue, creep and biodegradation of biomedical materials used in implants • Structural integrity of prostheses • Mechanical performance of biomedical materials in vivo • Structural integrity of 3d-printed biomedical components and structures • Bio-inspired and biomimetic materials and structures • Mechanical characterisation of artificial tissues and scaffolds • Mechanics of cells • Fracture mechanics of biological tissues • Damage in hard and soft biotissues • Responses of biological tissues and biomedical materials to dynamic loading • Numerical simulations of properties and performance of biological and biomedical materials and devices Organiser: Professor Vadim V. Silberschmidt (Loughborough University, UK), ESIS TC14 Chair 2) Mini-Symposium MS002 “Advanced Materials: Computational Analysis of Properties and Performance” will be organised within the framework of the 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM 2026 to be held in Munich, Germany, 19-24 July 2026 ( LINK ). This is a long-standing interdisciplinary Mini-Symposium, held at WCCM 8 (Venice, Italy, 2008), WCCM 9 (Sydney, Australia, 2010), WCCM 10 (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012), WCCM 11 (Barcelona, Spain, 2014), WCCM 12 (Seoul, South Korea, 2016), WCCM 13 (New York, USA, 2018), WCCM 14 (Paris, France/virtual edition, 2021), WCCM 15 (Yokohama, Japan/ virtual edition, 2022) and WCCM 16 (Vancouver, Canada, 2024). Its aim is to bring together specialists in computational mechanics, mechanics and micromechanics of materials, applied mathematics, continuum mechanics, materials science, physics, biomechanics as well as mechanical, automotive, aerospace, energy and medical engineering to discuss the latest developments and trends in computational analysis of relationships between the microstructural features of advanced engineering and natural materials and their local and global behaviours as well as their effects on performance of components and structures. The topics of the Mini-Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following: • computational mechanics of advanced materials and structures • effect of microstructure on properties and performance of advanced materials • prediction of deformational behaviour and life-in-service of structures and components made of advanced materials • computational methods for analysis of modern composite and nanocomposite materials • computational models of biological and biomedical materials • mechanics of composite materials with relaxation and phase transitions • simulation of failure mechanisms and damage accumulation processes in advanced materials • computational analysis of cutting of advanced materials • numerical simulation of mechanical behaviour of materials in technological processes • optimization problems in mechanics of advanced materials and structures. Organiser: Professor Vadim V. Silberschmidt (Loughborough University, UK), ESIS TC14 Chair 3) Special Issue Medical Devices: Materials, Mechanics and Manufacturing was published in Medical Engineering & Physics (Elsevier, LINK ) - LINK . Guest Editors of this Special Issue are Prof. Vadim Silberschmidt (ESIS TC14 Chair) and Prof. Sotiris Korossis (both – Loughborough University, UK). It contains a selection of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on

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