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

Editor-in-Chief
Professor J.W.Ju
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Editors
Professor Xi-Qiao Feng
Tsinghua University, China
Professor Khemais Saanouni
Universite Technologie de Troyes, France
Professor Dragoslav Sumarac
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Professor Lizhi Sun
University of California, Irvine, USA
Professor Yutaka Toi
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Founding Editors
C. L. Chow
 
J. L. Chaboche
 
D. Krajcinovic
 
S. Murakami
 
Editorial Advisory Board
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 Gianluca Cusatis
Northwestern University, 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 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