In the last decades, new experimental and numerical techniques have taken many advanced features of porous media mechanics down to practical engineering applications. This happened in areas that sometimes were not even suspected to be open to engineering ideas at all. The challenge that often faces engineers in the field of geomechanics, biomechanics, rheology and materials science is the translation of ideas existing in one field to solutions in the other. The purpose of the IUTAM symposium from which this proceedings volume has been compiled was to dive deep into the mechanics of those porous media that involve mechanics and chemistry, mechanics and electromagnetism, mechanics and thermal fluctuations of mechanics and biology. The different sections have purposely not been formed according to field interest, but on the basis of the physics involved.

Bones Have Ears:.- Representative Microstructure Finite Elements for Collagen Gels.- Viscous Effects in Particulates.- Pore Roughness Effects on Highfrequency Permeability.- Influence of High-Frequency Acoustic Waves on the Flow of a Liquid through Porous Material: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation.- Large Strain Analysis of 3-D Viscoelastic Swelling of Charged Tissues and Gels.- Theoretical and Finite Element Models for Coupled Electro-Mechano-Chemical Transport in Soft Tissues.- Porous Effects in the Description of the Dynamics of Granular Avalanches.- A Multiphase Approach for the Analysis of Hygro-Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Interactions in Concrete at Early Ages and at High Temperature.- Study of Drying Shrinkage Cracking by Lattice Gas Automaton and Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope.- Osmotic Transport through Clays and Capsules.- Electrokinetics in Random Deformable Porous Media.- Chemoporoelastic Parameter Identification of a Reactive Shale.- Measurements of Deformations and Electrical Potentials in a Charged Porous Medium.- Incorporating Chemical Effects in a Porothermoelastic Formulation and Application to Inclined Boreholes.- Ion Transport and Crystallization in Porous Materials as Studied by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Numerical and Experimental Studies of the Water and Ionic Mobilities within Suspensions of Charged Anisotropic Colloids.- A Chemo-Mechanical Model for Articular Cartilage.- A Dual Porosity Model for Contaminant Transport in Expansive Clays.- On Adsorption and Diffusion in Microstructured Porous Media.- Effect of Water Volume Fraction on Electrical Conductivity and Ion Diffusivity in Agarose Gels.- Hydrodynamic Dispersion and Chemical Reaction in Porous Media: The Use of Space Like Coordinates.- Development of a Finite Element Approach to Mechanics, Transport and Biosynthesis in Tissue Engineering.- Transport Across Single and Series Arrays of Membranes.- A Second Gradient Model for Deformable Porous Matrices Filled with an Inviscid Fluid.- Relationship Between Pore Structure and Fluid Transport in Argillaceous Rocks.- Towards a Better Understanding of the Electro-Magnetic Properties of Soils.- Porous Media Evaluation Using Frequency-Dependent Electrokinetics.- Charge Neutrality — Does It Exist?.- Shrinking and Cracking of Swelling Porous Media.- Modelling of Chemical Osmosis in Clay.- Coupling between Chemical and Electrical Osmosis in Clays.- Theoretical Analysis of the Influence of a Diffuse Double-Layer On Darcy’s Law.- Fluid Flow in the Self-Optimised Structure of Compact Bone.- Interaction Between Aqueous Solution Transport and Stress/Strain in a Deformable Porous Medium.- About the Proper Choice of Variables to Describe Flow-Induced Crystallization in Polymer Melts.- A Micromechanics Approach to the Mechanically-Induced Dissolution in Porous Media.- Modeling of Ice Formation in Porous Media.- Thermomechanical Modelling for Freezing of Solute Saturated Soil.- A Microscopic Description of Crystal Dissolution and Precipitation.- Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Monitoring of Material Destruction during Drying.- Two Phase Flow in Capillary Porous Thermo-Elastic Materials.