The 2^nd International Conference on Highly Flexible Slender Structures will be held between 22^nd and 26^th of September 2025 at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

The distinctive focus of the conference is on structural systems and its parts or elements which are both (i) highly flexible, i.e. exposed to large overall structural deformation and (ii) slender, i.e. characterised by a geometry with at least one structural dimension considerably smaller than the other two as in the case of non-linear rod and shell models.

The highly successful 1^st edition of this conference (HFSS 2023, 25-29 September 2023, Rijeka) took place during the closing stage of an MSCA Innovative Training Network on highly flexible slender structures for industrial applications THREAD.

Thank you for attending HFSS 2025

The Local Organising Committee would like to thank all participants, organisers of mini-symposia and authors for attending the conference, sharing your work and lively contributions to discussions.

Three special issues in Springer journals (Multibody System Dynamics, Acta Mechanica and Journal of Mathematics in Industry) related to the topics of the conference are open for submissions. Further information about publication connected to the conference in these collections can be found here.

We will keep you posted about the next edition of HFSS here, so feel free to check this website for new information.

We are looking forward to seeing you all again in the near future,

Local Organising Committee