| Summary: | This special collection on the Mechanical Properties of Solids gives an accurate picture, of the distribution of current research, from the viewpoint of the mechanical properties of solids. The topics are presented in traditional form: Ceramics, Composites and models, Metals and Polymers, and the six invited talks attempt to cover the most currently important areas, such as superplasticity and superelasticity, nanostructured materials, shape-memory alloys, viscoelasticity in polymers, microcrystalline metals, mechanical behaviour of bioactive materials, etc.
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