Editorial Office Information KEYWORDS FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY
Authors should select a maximum of five keywords. Each keyword should be accompanied by the capital letter denoting the category from which the keyword has been selected. If authors wish, they may nominate one keyword which is not included in the list below. The list of up to five keywords should appear on the title page of each paper submitted for consideration.
A. Physical phenomena acoustics adhesion and adhesives buckling corrosion and embrittlement crack branching and bifurcation crack propagation and arrest crack tip plasticity creep cutting and forming delamination dislocations ductility dynamic fracture dynamics energy release rate fatigue fracture fracture mechanisms fracture toughness friction grain boundaries microcracking microstructures phase transformation plastic collapse powder compaction shock waves solidification and melting strengthening mechanisms stress intensity factor stress relaxation thermomechanical processes twinning voids and inclusions yield condition
B. Problem description anisotropic material beams and columns ceramic material concrete constitutive behaviour crack mechanics crystal plasticity cyclic loading elastic material elastic-plastic material elastic-viscoplastic material fibre-reinforced composite material finite deflections finite strain geological material glass material granular material ice and snow ideally plastic material inhomogeneous material layered material metallic material particulate reinforced material piezoelectric material plastic collapse plates polycrystalline material polymeric material porous material pressure vessels rate-dependent material residual stress rock shells and membranes stress waves structures thermal stress viscoelastic material viscoplastic material
C. Methods analytic functions asymptotic analysis boundary elements boundary integral equations characteristics conservation integrals electrical resistance electron microscopy energy methods finite differences finite elements fractography impact testing integral transforms Kolsky bar mechanical testing nondestructive evaluation numerical algorithms optical interferometry optical microscopy optimization plate impact probability and statistics stability and bifurcation variational calculus
