The International Journal of Solids and Structures has as its objective the publication and dissemination of original research in Mechanics of Solids and Structures as a field of Applied Science and Engineering. It fosters thus the exchange of ideas among workers in different parts of the world and also among workers who emphasize different aspects of the foundations and applications of the field. 

Standing as it does at the cross-roads of Materials Science, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Design, the Mechanics of Solids and Structures is experiencing considerable growth as a result of recent technological advances. The Journal, by providing an international medium of communication, is encouraging this growth and is encompassing all aspects of the field from the more classical problems of structural analysis to mechanics of solids continually interacting with other media and including fracture, flow, wave propagation, heat transfer, thermal effects in solids, optimum design methods, model analysis, structural topology and numericaltechniques. Interest extends to both inorganic and organic solids and structures. 

The emphasis is placed on contributions, analytical, experimental and numerical, which appear to be of permanent interest to research workers and engineers in the field. If furthering knowledge in the area of principal concern of the Journal, papers of primary interest to the constitutive disciplines of Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Design may be published. Papers which are merely illustrations of established principles and procedures, even though possibly containing new numerical or experimental data, will generally not be published. 

When outstanding advances are made in existing areas or when new areas have been developed to a definitive stage, special review articles will be considered by the Editors.

No length limitations for contributions are set, but only concisely written papers are published. Brief articles are considered on the basis of technical merit. Discussions of previously published papers are welcome.

Original research papers, reviews, letters to the editor

Editors
D.A. Hills
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Email D.A. Hills
S. Kyriakides
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States Email S. Kyriakides
Associate Editors
S. Forest
Materials Research Centre, France
C. M. Landis
University of Texas at Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, United States
D. Mohr
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Switzerland
Assistant Editor
D. Dini
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Board of Editors
R. Abeyaratne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
E. Arruda
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
F. Barlat
Pohang University of Science and Technology Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, Pohang, South Korea
R. Becker
US Army Garrison Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States
D. Bigoni
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
H. Chai
Tel Aviv University Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv, Israel
M. Cho
Seoul National University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
A. Combescure
National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
R. S. Elliott
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
N. A. Fleck
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
S. Govindjee
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
S. D. Guest
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Y. Huang
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States
J. Huber
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
H. Jensen
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
J. W. Kysar
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
M. Liechti
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
R. McMeeking
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States
S. Natsiavas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
C. F. Niordson
Technical University of Denmark, Kongens(Kgs) Lyngby, Denmark
H. Obrecht
TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Nobutada Ohno
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
M. Paggi
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
G.H. Paulino
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
S. Pellegrino
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States
T. J. Pence
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
C. di Prisco
Polytechnic University of Milan, Milano, Italy
A. Spagnoli, PhD
University of Parma Department of Civil Environmental Land and Architecture Engineering, Parma, Italy
D .J. Steigmann
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
P. Steinmann
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Q.P. Sun
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Z. Suo
Harvard University John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
P. Suquet
Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics, Marseille, France
Y. Tomita
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
N. Triantafyllidis
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Q. Zheng
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China