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

在過去幾十年中，損傷力學基本概念的發展及其在解決實際工程問題上的應用取得了長足的進展和顯著的進展。例如，新概念已被有效地應用于表征蠕變損傷、低周和高周疲勞損傷、蠕變疲勞相互作用、脆性/彈性損傷、延性塑性損傷、應變軟化、應變率敏感性損傷、沖擊損傷和其他物理現象。調查材料包括但不限于聚合物、陶瓷、金屬、復合材料、生物材料、電子包裝、土工材料和民用基礎設施材料等。《國際損傷力學雜志》提供了一種有效的機制，以加速損傷力學知識的傳播，不僅在研究界，而且在研究實驗室和工業設計部門之間。該期刊促進并促進了損傷力學概念的發展，彌合了連續非彈性變形領域與經典斷裂力學之間的鴻溝，其中宏觀裂紋不斷增長。國際損傷力學雜志以來自世界各地的頂尖專家的原創同行評審論文為特色，涵蓋了實驗、理論和計算損傷力學科學和工程的新進展。主題包括但不限于：?不同長度尺度下的損傷機制?損傷成核和演化?蠕變損傷?低周和高周疲勞損傷、蠕變疲勞相互作用?脆性/彈性損傷?韌性/塑性損傷?損傷引起的應變軟化?損傷和自愈?應變率敏感性損傷?沖擊損傷?建模和數值模擬?納米、微觀和宏觀缺陷?損傷變量的多尺度本構關系?損傷引起的微觀結構性能關系?概率損傷力學?損傷力學在各個領域的新應用