International Journal of Damage Mechanics
Featuring original, peer-reviewed papers by leading specialists from around the world, the International Journal of Damage Mechanics covers new developments in the science and engineering in the field of damage mechanics of materials and structures. Damage mechanics is a clearly identified research field focused on studying the effects of various nano, micro and macro defects on the mechanical behavior of materials and structures, bridging the gap between the fields of continuum inelastic deformations and classical fracture mechanics with growing macroscopic cracks.
Devoted to the prompt publication of original papers reporting the results of experimental, theoretical and/or computational work on any aspect of research in damage mechanics, the journal provides an effective mechanism to disseminate knowledge not only within the research community but also between research laboratories and industrial design sectors.
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In the past several decades, there has been considerable progress and significant advances made in the development of fundamental concepts of damage mechanics and their application to solve practical engineering problems. For instance, new concepts have been effectively applied to characterize creep damage, low and high cycle fatigue damage, creep-fatigue interaction, brittle/elastics damage, ductile plastic damage, strain softening, strain-rate-sensitivity damage, impact damage, and other physical phenomena. Materials investigated include, but are not limited to, polymers, ceramics, metals, composites, biomaterials, electronic packaging, geomaterials, and civil infrastructure materials, etc.
The International Journal of Damage Mechanics provides an effective mechanism to accelerate dissemination of knowledge on damage mechanics not only within the research community but also between research laboratories and industrial design departments. The journal promotes and contributes to the development of the concept of damage mechanics bridging the gap between the fields of continuum inelastic deformations and classical fracture mechanics with growing macroscopic cracks.
Featuring original, peer-reviewed papers by leading specialists from around the world, the International Journal of Damage Mechanics covers new developments in the science and engineering of experimental, theoretical and computational damage mechanics.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• damage mechanisms at different length-scales
• damage nucleation and evolution
• creep damage
• low and high cycle fatigue damage , creep-fatigue interaction
• brittle/elastic damage
• ductile/plastic damage
• damage-induced strain softening
• damage and self-healing
• strain-rate sensitivity damage
• impact damage
• modelling and numerical simulation
• nano, micro and macro defects
• multi-scale constitutive relations with damage variables
• microstructure-property relations due to damage
• probabilistic damage mechanics
• new applications of damage mechanics to various fields
| Professor Jiann-Wen Woody Ju | University of California at Los Angeles, USA |
| Professor Xi-Qiao Feng | Tsinghua University, China |
| Professor Kunio Hayakawa | Shizuoka University, Japan |
| Professor Corrado Maurini | Sorbonne University, France |
| Professor Dragoslav Sumarac | University of Belgrade, Serbia |
| Professor Lizhi Sun | University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Professor Olivier Allix | ENS Cachan, France |
| Professor Michal Basista | Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| Professor Filippo Berto | Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
| Professor Wolfgang Brocks | Institute of Materials Research, Germany |
| Professor Michael Brünig | Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany |
| Professor Diego Celentano | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile |
| Professor Zhen Chen | University of Missouri, USA |
| Professor Catrin Davies | Imperial College of Science and Technology, UK |
| Professor Andre Dragon | ISAE (Higher Institut for Aeronautics and Space), France |
| Professor Ming Wang Fu | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Professor Iwona Jasiuk | University of Illinois, USA |
| Professor Milan Jirasek | Czech Technical University, Czech Republic |
| Professor Kikuo Kishimoto | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Professor Djimedo Kondo | UPMC, France |
| Professor Haeng-Ki Lee | KAIST, Korea |
| Professor Soon-Bok Lee | School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, KAIST, South Korea |
| Professor Jie Li | Tongji University, China |
| Professor Xikui Li | Dalian University Of Technology, China |
| Professor Jianguo Lin | Imperial College London, UK |
| Professor Gilles Lubineau | KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| Professor Y.-W. Mai | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Professor M. Ostoja-Starzewski | University of Illinois, USA |
| Professor Jwo Pan | The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA |
| Professor Thomas Pardoen | Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| Professor B. P. Patel | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India |
| Professor Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot | Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France |
| Professor Pizhong Qiao | Washington State University, USA |
| Professor Raju Sethuraman | Indian Institute of Technology, India |
| Professor Hossein M. Shodja | Sharif University, Iran |
| Professor Blazej Skoczen | Cracow University of Technology, Poland |
| Professor R.Talreja | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Professor T. E. Tay | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Professor Yutaka Toi | Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Professor Viggo Tvergaard | The Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
| Professor George Voyiadjis | Louisiana State University, USA |
| Professor Keiji Yanase | Fukuoka University, Japan |
| Professor Qiang Yang | Tsinghua University, China |
| Professor Shou Wen Yu | Tsinghua University, China |
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