The first European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC) was held in Munich in 1991. This very successful conference initiated a tri-annual series with subsequent conferences held in Genova, Stockholm, Metz, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Lisbon, Graz, Madrid, Bologna and Galway.

The European Solid Mechanics Conference is the major event for the solids mechanics community in Europe and provides a unique forum for scientists and engineers to exchange ideas on the current state-of-the-art in the mechanics of solids, on new concepts and ideas and to identify new research directions.

We invite you to participate in this conference and to contribute to any topic of your scientific interest. The General (contributed) Sessions for this conference have been organized into a range of main areas. In addition, more than 50 Mini-Symposia will be organized in a range of specialized topics.