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 ... click here for full Aims & Scope
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.
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