Crystal Plasticity (4th Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Following the resounding success of the first three volumes of this Special Issue, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for submission to “Crystal Plasticity (4th Edition)”. With the ongoing progress in the understanding, development, and application of crystalline materials, the importance and utility of robust mathematical and computational modeling tools continues to grow. We wish to invite manuscripts pertaining to any of the several facets of crystal plasticity, with the goal of gaining valuable insights on any of the linkages in the composition–process–structure–property–performance paradigm. This invitation spans crystal plasticity work within a broad range of contexts, including but not limited to:

• Manufacturing & Processing
  • Conventional processing methods:
    • Casting, solidification, heat treatment, and hot/cold working (rolling, forging, drawing, forming, extrusion, etc.).
  • Novel and advanced manufacturing techniques:
    • Additive manufacturing (both fusion and non-fusion based);
    • Hybrid additive–subtractive manufacturing;
    • Severe plastic deformation; 
    • Sintering.

• Modeling methodologies and computational techniques
  • Mean-field and full-field approaches;
  • Development of new theoretical/mathematical frameworks;
  • Data science, machine learning, and statistical methods;
  • Computational implementations (e.g., new numerical solvers/schemes, parallelization, incorporation into digital twins, etc.).

• Material systems that exhibit crystallinity
  • Conventional metallic alloys;
  • Multi-principal element and high-entropy alloys;
  • Ceramics;
  • Semiconductors;
  • Nanocrystalline materials;
  • Biomaterials;
  • Composites;
  • Meta-materials and auxetic structures; 
  • Intermetallics.

• Understanding and capturing material mechanisms
  • Compositional effects:
    • Solute and substitutional additions;
    • Elemental segregation;
    • Precipitate formation, growth, and coherence/decoherence.
  • Microstructural phenomena:
    • Dislocation theory;
    • Phase transformation;
    • Texture evolution; 
    • Recrystallization.
  • Property development:
    • Strengthening;
    • Toughening;
    • Controlling anisotropy.
  • Analysis of effects of defects:
    • Vacancies, stacking faults, dislocation structures, and grain/phase/twin boundary evolution.
  • Failure initiation and propagation (monotonic or cyclic). 

• Operating environments:
  • High temperature/refractory applications;
  • Nuclear/radioactive;
  • Corrosive/caustic;
  • High deformation rates;
  • High-frequency/high-cycle thermal and/or mechanical loading. 

• Multiphysics:
  • Coupled effects of two or more factors (e.g. microstructural, thermal, mechanical, chemical, nuclear, etc.).

Dr. Shiraz Mujahid
Dr. Yub Raj Paudel
Dr. Hongjoo Rhee
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crystals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• plasticity
• computational methods
• machine learning
• texture evolution
• microstructural mechanisms
• thermomechanical processing
• advanced manufacturing and metamaterials
• process–structure–property relationships
• metals, alloys, and intermetallics

• Crystal Plasticity in Crystals (26 articles)
• Crystal Plasticity (Volume II) in Crystals (27 articles)
• Crystal Plasticity (Volume III) in Crystals (14 articles)