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.

該雜志的目的是報道對各向同性和各向異性固體的塑性變形、損傷和斷裂行為的各個方面的原始研究，包括塑性和斷裂熱力學(xué)、連續(xù)介質(zhì)理論、宏觀和微觀現(xiàn)象。感興趣的主題包括單晶和多晶金屬、陶瓷、巖石和土壤、復(fù)合材料、納米晶和微電子材料、形狀記憶合金、鐵電陶瓷、薄膜和聚合物的塑性行為，以及失效和斷裂力學(xué)的塑性方面。重要的實驗、數(shù)值或理論貢獻有助于理解固體的塑性行為，以及與固體微觀行為有關(guān)的宏觀研究具有特殊的意義。本文對有限非線性彈性變形的建模，與塑性變形的建模相似，也受到歡迎。雜志將包含研究論文、評論文章、研究筆記、給編輯的信以及學(xué)術(shù)廣告(書籍、期刊、會議和專題討論會)。應(yīng)變速率相關(guān)和應(yīng)變速率無關(guān)的本構(gòu)模型，用于預(yù)測準靜態(tài)、動態(tài)或循環(huán)熱機械載荷、顆粒或多孔固體在高圍壓和高溫下的行為、各種變形機制(位錯、孿晶和相變)的多尺度建模、基于已知基體和纖維在此類材料中的塑性行為，可以預(yù)測復(fù)合材料行為的模型，是本雜志主題的一些例子。揭示新塑性模型的應(yīng)用，包括對金屬成形過程中觀察到的現(xiàn)象進行建模，也很有意義。