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Tactile is the sense that keeps us in touch with our environment, through the direct interaction between our skin and surrounding surfaces. Its understanding is, however, still at a fairly primitive stage in comparison to eg vision. Tactile perception is the result of a complex physical and biological chain where the field of tribology lies at the heart of the process: the mechanical stimuli originated at the contact interface between the skin and the explored surface. Transient strain and stress fields, related to friction forces and induced vibrations, are transduced and processed by the brain; they are heavily influenced both by the environment and our health. Specific attention will be placed on the reproduction, analysis and rendering of tactile stimuli from the skin deformation in quasi-static and dynamic regimes during friction on different surfaces or tactile stimulators. This will enable a more detailed understanding of the tactile sense, the ability to tune a tactile interaction using topographic and materials choices, or to reproduce a tactile experience using a digital route. This symposium plans to bring together experts in all aspects of this exciting and expanding new field, to provide an interdisciplinary forum.

Experimental technics for tactile analysis and processing; Development and exploitation of devices for tactile rendering; Numerical and theoretical approaches aimed to support the understanding of underlying physics; Multidisciplinary works aimed at deciphering the different links of the perception chain

The European Solid Mechanics Conference is the major event for the solid mechanics community in Europe, and provides a unique forum for scientists and engineers from Europe and across the world 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. Solid mechanics is a critically important element in the design and development of almost all technologies and products in many areas, such as aircraft, automobiles, buildings, bridges, and medical implants and devices. Further, solid mechanics is a key enabler in the development of new technologies that address the major global challenges of our time in sustainability, renewable energy and health. The European Solid Mechanics Conference is managed by the Euromech community and was first 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 12th European Solid Mechanics Conference will take place at the convention center in LYON, France.

Mechanical engineering,    Acoustics, Noise and Vibration