This interdisciplinary journal provides a forum for presenting new ideas in continuum and quasi-continuum modeling of systems with a large number of degrees of freedom and sufficient complexity to require thermodynamic closure. Major emphasis is placed on papers attempting to bridge the gap between discrete and continuum approaches as well as micro- and macro-scales, by means of homogenization, statistical averaging and other mathematical tools aimed at the judicial elimination of small time and length scales. The journal is particularly interested in contributions focusing on a simultaneous description of complex systems at several disparate scales. Papers presenting and explaining new experimental findings are highly encouraged. The journal welcomes numerical studies aimed at understanding the physical nature of the phenomena.

Potential subjects range from boiling and turbulence to plasticity and earthquakes. Studies of fluids and solids with nonlinear and non-local interactions, multiple fields and multi-scale responses, nontrivial dissipative properties and complex dynamics are expected to have a strong presence in the pages of the journal. An incomplete list of featured topics includes: active solids and liquids, nano-scale effects and molecular structure of materials, singularities in fluid and solid mechanics, polymers, elastomers and liquid crystals, rheology, cavitation and fracture, hysteresis and friction, mechanics of solid and liquid phase transformations, composite, porous and granular media, scaling in statics and dynamics, large scale processes and geomechanics, stochastic aspects of mechanics. The journal would also like to attract papers addressing the very foundations of thermodynamics and kinetics of continuum processes. Of special interest are contributions to the emerging areas of biophysics and biomechanics of cells, bones and tissues leading to new continuum and thermodynamical models.

The journal publishes research papers, invited review articles and short communications, as well as "comment-and-reply" on papers already published.

Founding Editors
K. Hutter, I. Müller

Editor-in-Chief
Andreas Öchsner
Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Kanalstrasse 33
73728 Esslingen
Germany
Advisory Editor

Holm Altenbach
Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik
Institut für Mechanik
Fakultät für Maschinenbau
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Germany

Editors
Sergey Aleksandrov
Institute for Problems in Mechanics
Russian Academy of Science
101-1 Prospect Vernadskogo
119526 Moscow
Russia

Special fields:
Plasticity theory, fracture mechanics
Arkadi Berezovski
Centre for Nonlinear Studies
Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology
Akadeemia tee, 21
12618 Tallinn
Estonia

Special fields:
Thermodynamics
Stefan Diebels
Universität des Saarlandes
Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik
Campus A4 2
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany

Special fields:
Extended and multiphase contiuna, numerical methods
Lawrence C. Evans
Department of Mathematics 
University of California, Berkeley 
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA 

Special fields:
Nonlinear partial differential equations, calculus of variations
M. Gregory Forest
Departments of Mathematics & Biomedical Engineering 
Institute for Advanced Materials
Nanoscience & Technology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill 
NC 27599-3250
USA

Special fields:
Non-Newtonian fluids, anisotropic materials, homogenization, liquid crystals, nanostructured materials
Samuel Forest
Mines ParisTech
Centre des Matériaux
CNRS UMR 7633
BP 87
91003 Evry Cedex
France

Special fields:
Mechanics of generalized continua, Crystal plasticity, Computational Homogenization
Alexander B. Freidin
Russian Academy of Science
Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering
V.O., Bolshoy pr. 61
St. Petersburg, 199178
Russia

Special fields:
Nonlinear elasticity, stress-assist phase and chemical transformations, micromechanics
Huajian Gao
School of Engineering
Brown University
610 Barus & Holley
182 Hope Street
Providence, RI, 02912
USA

Special fields:
Micromechanics, fracture, mechanics of biological systems
Serge N. Gavrilov
Russian Academy of Science
Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering
V.O., Bolshoy pr. 61
St. Petersburg, 199178
Russia

Special fields:
Elastodynamics, phase transitions, constitutive equations
Klaus Hackl
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Mechanik
Ruhr Universität Bochum 
Universitätsstr. 150/Geb. IA/3/125
44780 Bochum
Germany
Special fields:
Elasticity, plasticity, microstructured materials, numerical methods
Francesco dell'Isola
Università di Roma La Sapienza
and
International Research Center for Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems MEMOCS 
Via Eudossiana 18
00184 Roma
Italy

Special fields:
Lagrangian methods in mechanics, capillary fluids, thermomechanics of phase transition and surface phenomena, smart materials and structures
Michael Johlitz
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Institut für Mechanik
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
85577 Neubiberg
Germany
Special Fields:
Polymers
Oliver Kastner
Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin
(German language:
Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH Hameln/Emmerthal)
Am Ohrberg 1
D-31860 Emmerthal
Germany
Special fields:
Thermodynamics of Materials, solid state phase transitions, first principles materials modeling, shape memory alloys
Jose' L. Lage
Mechanical Engineering Department
Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering
Southern Methodist University
3101 Dyer St, Suite 200
Dallas, TX 75205
USA

Special fields:
Conduction & convection, multiphase processes, heat transfer in porous media, cooling of avionics
incompressible laminar & turbulent flows, flow through porous media, alveolar respiration, absorption processes
Marcelo de Lemos
Departamento de Energia - IEME
Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica
ITA 12228-900
Sao Jose dos Campos – SP
Brazil

Special fields:
Turbulence modeling, computational fluid dynamics, porous media, heat transfer,
turbulent combustion
Stephan Luckhaus
Institut für Mathematik
Universität Leipzig
Augustusplatz 10-11
04109 Leipzig
Germany

Special fields:
Free boundary problems, calculus of variations, groundwater flow, surface tension driven evolution
W. H. Müller
Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät V – Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme
Sekretariat MS 02
Einsteinufer 5
10587 Berlin
Germany

Special fields:
Experimental mechanics - in particular miniature testing techniques, applications of continuum theory, fracture and damage of materials and structures
Patrizio Neff
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Fakultät für Mathematik
Weststadtcarree
Thea-Leymann-Straße 9
45127 Essen
Germany
Special fields:
Generalized continua, plates and shells, plasticity theory, calculus of variations, generalized Korn's inequalities
Luca Placidi
International Telematic University Uninettuno
C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 39
00186 Roma
Italy

Special fields:
Metamaterials, Microstructured and Higher Gradient Continua, Damage and Fracture Mechanics, Ice Mechanics, Waves in complex systems, Nonlinear mechanics of structures, Impact mechanics
David Srolovitz
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 
University of Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia 
PA 19004 
USA 

Special fields:
Atomistic modeling, crystal defects, microstructure

Henning Struchtrup
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Victoria
Victoria BC V8W 3P6
Canada
Special fields:
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, transport theory
Manuel Torrilhon
RWTH Aachen
Center for Computatinal Engineering Science
Rogowski Building
Templergraben 55
52056 Aachen
Germany

Special fields:
Thermodynamics of gases and plasmas, kinetic theory, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical methods
Peter Ván
Department of Theoretical Physics
Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics
Wigner Research Centre for Physics, HAS
Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33
P. O. Box 49, H-1525 Hungary
and
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department of Energy Engineering
Budapest, Bertalan Lajos u. 4-6
P. O. Box 91, H-1521 
Hungary
Special fields:
Ordinary, weakly nonlocal and non-equilibrium thermodynamics

Kerstin Weinberg
Universität Siegen
Fachbereich 11 Maschinenbau
Institut für Mechanik und Regelungstechnik
Paul-Bonatz-Straße 9-11
57076 Siegen
Germany

Special fields: 
Solid Mechanics at high velocities, coupled fields and phase field problems, variational methods