Mechanics of Materials

Mechanics of Materials, a journal in the field of solid mechanics and materials, aims to disseminate quality research work in the broad spectrum of engineering and natural materials. It reports original research with a mechanically oriented description of substructures from nano- to macro-scales encompassing time-dependent and time-independent behaviors, material instabilities, damage and fracture mechanisms, and interactions between mechanics and electricity, 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 journal also focusses on the thermo-mechanical constitutive response of metals, polymers, soft materials, bio-materials, natural 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 describe combined experimental/computational/analytical approaches in the above fields are also of interest.

To foster interest and promote discussion among researchers on new mechanics concepts or new material mechanisms, short articles which will undergo fast-track review for rapid dissemination are solicited. Special issues on topical research areas by guest editors, review articles and surveys by experts in emerging research fields are also welcome upon approval by the editorial board.

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Editorial board

Editors

• Benjamin Loret
  Grenoble Alpes University Soil Solids Structures Risks Laboratory, Grenoble, France
• Ghatu Subhash
  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Founding Editor

• Siavouche (Sia) Nemat-Nasser
  University of California San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, La Jolla, California, United States

Associate Editors

• Alireza Vakil Amirkhizi PhD
  University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
• Frederic Barlat
  Pohang University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of
• Shengqiang Cai
  University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
• Samantha Daly
  University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States
• Christian Franck
  University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
• Eliot Fried
  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
• Hamid Garmestani
  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Shailendra Joshi PhD
  University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
• Ajit .K. Mal
  University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
• Damiano Pasini
  McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Narasimhan Ramarathinam PhD
  Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
• Daniel Rittel
  Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Bo Song PhD
  Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
• Ankit Srivastava
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Kerstin Weinberg
  University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
• Chee How Wong PhD
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
• Shuman Xia
  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Yihui Zhang
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Mohammed A. Zikry
  North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States