This book details recent advances in all aspects related to scale transition in crystal plasticity and damage, with a particular focus on the challenges associated with the characterization and modeling of this class of complex interactions.

The following topics are included:

• Innovative characterization techniques (multi-scale characterization, SEMTEM coupling, TEM-micro-diffraction coupling, in-situ mechanical tests, localization, image correlation, displacement field measurements, tomography, etc.).
• Computational crystal plasticity and damage (dislocation dynamics and ab initio calculations, microstructure evolution of polycrystals, comparison between FE, fast Fourier transform and self-consistent approaches, intragranular slip, heterogeneities, discrete approaches, etc.).

The book gathers together selected papers from the invited lectures presented at the 3rd and 4th US-France Symposia organized by the editors under the auspices of the International Center for Applied Computational Mechanics (ICACM).

Ioan R. Ionescu is Professor at the University of Paris 13, in the Department of Engineering Sciences. His area of expertise is computational solid mechanics and solid Earth geophysics.

Salima Bouvier is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Technology of Compiègne in France. Her research fields include scale transition in metallic materials from an experimental point of view to constitutive modeling.

Oana Cazacu is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (REEF) in Shalimar , Florida, USA. Her main research interests lie in theoretical and computational solid mechanics with a focus on multi-scale modeling of plasticity and damage in textured metals.

Patrick Franciosi is the director of the CNRS laboratory of mechanical and thermodynamic properties of materials (LPMTM) at the University of Paris 13. His main acknowledged field of excellence is crystalline plasticity and related mechanical outcomes.