Forum for original scientific research on the flow, fracture, and general constitutive behavior of advanced technological and natural materials

Mechanics of Materials, a journal in the field of solid mechanics and materials, aims to disseminate research work in the broad spectrum of engineering and natural materials. It reports research with a mechanically oriented description of substructures from nano- to macro-scales encompassing spatio-temporal behaviors, material instabilities, damage and fracture mechanisms, and interactions between mechanics and multiphysics phenomena including electricity, magnetism, chemistry and optics. Particular emphasis is placed on the inspection of strain rates, spatio-temporal scales, inception of microstructural features and their evolution, and couplings between mechanics and transport phenomena.

The topics covered by the journal include:
Thermo-mechanical constitutive response of metals, polymers, soft materials, bio-materials, natural and geo materials, ceramics, metallic glasses, granular materials, composites, shape-memory alloys, nanostructured materials, etc.
Mechanics-based investigations on emerging areas such as 3D printing, additive manufacturing, bio-inspired materials, 2D materials, e.g., graphene and thin films, are encouraged. Articles that propose advances in combined experimental/computational/analytical approaches in the above fields are of particular interest.

Original research papers, invited review articles, brief notes, book reviews.

Editors
Benjamin Loret
Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
Ghatu Subhash
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Founding Editor
Siavouche (Sia) Nemat-Nasser
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USA
Associate Editors
Alireza Vakil Amirkhizi, PhD
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Email Alireza Vakil Amirkhizi, PhD Time-dependent constitutive response of materials, micro-structured media and mechanical metamaterials, multifunctional composites, mechanical and electromagnetic properties
Frederic Barlat
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Gyeongbuk, The Republic of Korea Email Frederic Barlat Plasticity, Damage, Constitutive modeling, Multiscale modeling, Metals and alloys, Hardening, Forming, Localization, Fracture, Anisotropy
Shengqiang Cai
University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA Email Shengqiang Cai Mechanics of soft materials, Electro-chemo-mechanics of solids, Mechanics of energy materials, Bio-inspired design and bio-mechanics, 3D Fabrications
Samantha Daly
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Email Samantha Daly Solid Mechanics, Metal plasticity, Grain boundary mechanics
Christian Franck
University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Email Christian Franck High pressure and high strain rate deformation of soft matter and biological systems, 3D microscopy techniques, Cellular biomechanics
Eliot Fried
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan Email Eliot Fried Nonlinear elasticity, Chemomechanical coupling, Stability and bifurcation, Dimensionally reduced models
Hamid Garmestani
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Email Hamid GarmestaniMicrostructure/property relationship in textured polycrystalline materials,Composites, Superplastic, Magnetic and thin film layered structures
Shailendra Joshi, PhD
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA Email Shailendra Joshi, PhDMicromechanical modeling of HCP materials, Atomistic calculations, Crystal plasticity, Twinning
Ajit .K. Mal
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA Email Ajit .K. Mal Mechanics of solids, Fracture and failure, Wave propagation, Nondestructive evaluation, Composite materials, Structural health monitoring, Biomechanics
Darniano Pasini
McGill University, Quebec, Canada Email Darniano Pasini Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical and hybrid materials, foams and lattices, composites and biological materials
Narasimhan Ramarathinam, PhD
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Email Narasimhan Ramarathinam, PhDNonlinear and Dynamic Fracture Mechanics, Computational Solid Mechanics, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials
Daniel Rittel
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Email Daniel Rittel Dynamic mechanical behavior of materials, Thermomechanics, Thermomechanical coupling in solids, Static and dynamic fracture, Stress waves in solids, Electron microscopy, Soft matter mechanics
Bo Song, PhD
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Email Bo Song, PhDExperimental mechanics, Impact mechanics, Stress wave Propagation, Soft materials mechanics
Ankit Srivastava
Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA Email Ankit Srivastava Wave propagation, Micromechanics and homogenization, Deep learning and data-driven mechanics, Optimization and inverse problems
Kerstin Weinberg
Universität Siegen, Germany Email Kerstin Weinberg Phase field theory, Microelectronic devices, Tissue response in shock-wave-treatment
Chee How Wong, PhD
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email Chee How Wong, PhD Properties of materials at nano-scale, Additive manufacturing processes, Carbon nanotubes, Atomistic simulations
Shuman Xia
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Email Shuman Xia Experimental solid mechanics, Nano and micromechanics, Mechanics of energy storage and conversion materials, Mechanics of heterogeneous media, Fracture and fatigue of active materials
Yihui Zhang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Email Yihui Zhang Mechanics of porous solids, Mechanics of 3D assembly, Soft mechanical metamaterials, Mechanics of flexible structures, Flexible/stretchable electronics, Thin-film/substrate systems
Mohammed A. Zikry
North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA Email Mohammed A. ZikryComputational modeling and mechanics, Failure models for heterogeneous ductile and brittle systems, Dynamic behavior of structures and materials, Micromechanics, Active materials