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.

该期刊的目的是报道各向同性和各向异性固体的塑性变形、损伤和断裂行为的各个方面的原创研究，包括塑性和断裂的热力学、连续理论以及宏观和微观现象。

感兴趣的主题包括单晶和多晶金属、陶瓷、岩石和土壤、复合材料、纳米晶体和微电子材料、形状记忆合金、铁电陶瓷、薄膜和聚合物的塑性行为，以及失效和断裂力学的塑性方面。对促进对固体塑性行为理解的重大实验、数值或理论贡献以及将固体的宏观行为与微观行为联系起来的研究特别感兴趣。也欢迎有关有限非线性弹性变形建模的论文，这些论文与塑性变形建模类似。

该期刊将包含研究论文、评论文章、研究笔记、致编辑的信和学术广告（书籍、期刊、会议和研讨会）。应变率相关和应变率独立的本构模型用于预测在准静态、动态或循环热机械载荷期间观察到的现象、颗粒或多孔固体在高围压和高温下的行为、各种变形机制（位错、孪生和相变）的多尺度建模，以及能够根据此类材料中基质和纤维的已知塑性行为预测复合材料行为的模型，是本期刊主要主题的一些例子。揭示塑性新模型的应用，包括对金属成型过程中观察到的现象的建模，也是令人感兴趣的。

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