The purpose of the journal is to report original research on all aspects of plastic deformation, damage and fracture behaviour of isotropic as well as anisotropic solids, including the thermodynamics of plasticity and fracture, continuum theory, and macroscopic as well as microscopic phenomena.

The topics of interest include plastic behaviour of single crystals and polycrystalline metals, ceramics, rocks and soils, composites, nanocrystalline and microelectronics materials, shape memory alloys, ferroelectric ceramics, thin films and polymers, as well as plasticity aspects of failure and fracture mechanics. Significant experimental, numerical or theoretical contributions advancing the understanding of plastic behaviour of solids are of special interest, together with studies relating macroscopic to the microscopic behaviour of solids. Papers on modeling of finite nonlinear elastic deformation, with similarities to modeling of plastic deformation, are also welcome.

The Journal will contain research papers, review articles, research notes, letters to the editor, and academic advertisements (books, journals, conferences, and symposia). Strain-rate dependent and strain-rate independent constitutive models to predict observed phemonena during quasi-static, dynamic or cyclic thermo-mechanical loading, behaviour of granular or porous solids under high confining pressures and at high temperatures, multiscale modeling of various deformation mechanisms (dislocation, twinning, and phase transformation), and models with capability for predicting the behaviour of composite materials based onknown plastic behaviour of matrix and fibers in such materials, are some examples of the main themes of this journal. Revealing applications of the new models of plasticity, including modelling of the observed phenomena in metal forming processes are also of interest.

Research papers, review articles, research notes, letters to the editor, and academic advertisements

Editor-in-Chief
Akhtar Khan
University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Email Akhtar Khan
Associate Editors
Sean R. Agnew
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Curt A. Bronkhorst
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Alfonso Ngan
University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Jeong Whan Yoon
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Editorial Consultants
Lallit Anand
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Frederic Barlat
Pohang University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of
David McDowell
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Nobutada Ohno
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
George Voyiadjis
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Hussein Zbib
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States
Editorial Advisory Board
Yoshiteru Aoyagi
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Stéphane Berbenni
LEM3, University of Lorraine, France
Jacques Besson
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Centre de Materiaux, France
Irene Beyerlein
University of California at Santa Barbara Department of Mechanical Engineering, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Michael Brunig
University of the Federal Forces Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
Laurent Capolungo
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Ellen Kathleen Cerreta
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Le Khanh Chau
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Shi-Hoon Choi
Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Korea, Republic of
Martin Crimp
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Laurent Delannay
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Issam Doghri
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Huiling Duan
Peking University, Beijing, China
Patrick Franciosi
CNRS-UPR3407, LSPM, France
Ming Wang Fu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Somnath Ghosh
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Takayuki Hama
Kyoto University, Japan
Dongchan Jang
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Antoine Jerusalem
University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Yanyao Jiang
University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada, United States
Guozheng Kang
Southwest Jiaotong University School of Mechanics and Engineering, Chengdu, China
Leo Kestens
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
Marko Knezevic
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States
Mitsutoshi Kuroda
Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
Stelios Kyriakides
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
Jeffrey W. Kysar
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Ricardo Lebensohn
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Myoung-Gyu Lee
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Valery Levitas
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States
Bin Liu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Tsuyoshi Mayama
Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Dirk Mohr
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
François Nicot
National Research Institute for Environmental and Agricultural Science and Technology Grenoble, St-Martin-d'Hères cedex, France
Mark-Jerzy Pindera
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Arunachalam Rajendran
University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy, Oxford, Mississippi, United States
Jianfu Shao
University of Lille, Lille, France
Mahesh Sivasambu
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Jian Wang
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States