Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials

MANUSCRIPTS
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials encourages the submission of both substantial full-length bodies of work and shorter manuscripts that report novel findings. There are no specific length restrictions for the overall manuscript or individual sections; however, we urge the authors to present and discuss their findings in a concise and accessible manner.

All submissions must be made via online submission system Editorial Manager. In case of problems, please contact the Managing Editor of this journal (natalia.przybylska@degruyter.com).

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts have to be written in LATEX, AMS-TEX, AMS-LATEX. We do not accept papers in Plain TEX format. For an initial submission, the authors are strongly advised to upload their entire manuscript, including tables and figures, as a single PDF file. Authors are strongly advised to submit the final version of the paper using the journal’s LaTex Template.

For detailed information, please see Instruction for Authors

EDITORIAL POLICY
Unpublished material: Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described is not copyrighted, published or submitted elsewhere, except in abstract form. The corresponding author should ensure that all authors approve the manuscript before its submission.
Ethical conduct of research: The authors must describe and confirm safeguards to meet ethical standards when applicable. See Editorial Policy for details.
Conflict of interest: When authors submit a manuscript, they are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and/or other conflicts of interest that might bias their work and/or could inappropriately influence his/her judgment. If no specified acknowledgement is given, the Editors assume that no conflict of interest exists. Authors are encouraged to fill in the ICMJE Conflicts of Interest Form (available here) and send it in the electronic format to the Managing Editor.
Copyright: All authors retain copyright, unless – due to their local circumstances – their work is not copyrighted. The copyrights are governed by the Creative-Commons Attribution Only license (CC-BY) which is compliant with Plan-S. The corresponding author grants the journal the license to use of the article, by signing the License To Publish. Scanned copy of license should be sent to the journal, as soon as possible.
Authorship: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an Acknowledgement section. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list of the manuscript, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication. For more details the role of authors please see: https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/for-authors/for-journal-authors/role-of-authors
Peer Review process: Our standard policy requires each paper reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research, together with relevant supplementary materials, to be reviewed by at least two Referees and the peer-review process is single-blind. The Editors reserve the right to decline the submitted manuscript without review, if the studies reported are not sufficiently novel or important to merit publication in the journal. Manuscripts deemed unsuitable (insufficient originality or of limited interest to the target audience) are returned to the author(s) without review. The Editor seeks advice from experts in the appropriate field. Research articles and communications are refereed by a minimum of two reviewers, review papers by at least three. Authors are requested to suggest persons competent to review their manuscript. However, please note that this will be treated only as a suggestion, and the final selection of reviewers is exclusively the Editor's decision. The final decision of acceptance in made by Managing Editor or, in case of conflict, by the Editor-in-Chief.
Scientific Misconduct: This journal publishes only original manuscripts that are not also published or going to be published elsewhere. Multiple submissions/publications, or redundant publications (re-packaging in different words of data already published by the same authors) will be rejected. If they are detected only after publication, the journal reserves the right to publish a Retraction Note. In each particular case Editors will follow COPE’s Core Practices and implement the advices.

Associate Editors
T. Arunkumar, Chennai Institute of Technology, India
Sergio Cicero Gonzalez, University of Cantabria, Spain
Nuno Cristelo, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
José Correia, University of Porto , Portugal
Siaw Foon Lee, CSIC – Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja, Madrid, Spain
Grzegorz Lesiuk, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mohammed Rasheed, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
Tiago Emanuel Silva, Tecnologias Avançadas De Fabrico, Portugal
Panayiotis Tsokanas, KU Leuven, Belgium
José Xavier, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Haohui Xin, Southeast University, China
Jian-Feng Wen, East China University of Science and Technology, China
Shun-Peng Zhu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Editorial Board
David Bassir, University of Saclay, France
Davide Bigoni, Ambientale e Meccanica Università di Trento, Italy
Bushroa Binti Abd Razak, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Ankit Garg, Xia'n Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Jean-François Ganghoffer, Université de Lorraine, France
Nasr N Ghoniem, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Diletta Giuntini, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wei Jian, Ningbo University, China
Nicole Kringos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Rui Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Jerzy Małachowski, Warsaw Military University of Technology, Poland
Emilio Martinez-Paneda, Imperial College London, UK
Claudio Giuliodi Prisco, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Vishesh Ranjan Kar, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India
Daya Reddy, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Aditya Rio Prabowo, Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia
Camilla Ronchei, University of Parma, Italy
Jarosław Rybak, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Daniela Scorza, University of Parma, Italy
Tushar Sonar, South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk, Russia
Boris B. Straumal, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia
Yonghui Zhou, Brunel University London, UK
Olha Zvirko, Karpenko-Physico-Mechanical Institute of National Academy of Science, Ukraine

Editorial Advisory Board
Roberto Ballarini, University of Houston, USA
Aldo R. Boccacini, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Norman Fleck, University of Cambridge, UK
Marc Geers, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Javier Gil Sevillano, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Klaus Hackl, Ruhr University Bohum, Germany
Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Alexander Korsunsky, University of Oxford, UK
Christian Frithiof Niordson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Nicola Pugno, University of Trento, Italy
Chong-Qing Ru, University of Alberta, Canada
George Z. Voyiadjis, Louisiana State University, USA
Jianren Zhou, Prairie View A&M University, Texas, USA　

Honorary Editors
Ali Argon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ♱
Michael F. Ashby, Cambridge University, UK
Bill Gerberich, University of Minnesota, USA
David Hui, University of New Orleans, USA
John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University, USA
Ladislas Kubin, The French Aerospace Lab ONERA, France
James C.M. Li, University of Rochester, USA
Gérard Maugin, Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, France
Marc André Meyers, University of California at San Diego, USA
Haël Mughrabi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Brian L. Wardle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
John R. Willis, University of Cambridge, UK

Publisher
DE GRUYTER Poland
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01-811 Warsaw, Poland
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Editorial Contact
Kumaran Rengaswamy
Assistant Managing Editor, Compuscript
AssistantManagingEditor@degruyter.com

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