Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Guest Editor, Prof. Dr. Bill Plumbrige, we would like to
renew our invitation for you to contribute an outstanding long review or full
research paper for peer-review and possible publication in the following
Special Issue:

Special Issue: Creep and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/materials/creep_fracture/
Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Bill Plumbrige
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2012

If you decide to contribute, please let us know, and send us your
manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not have
been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication
elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send us their tentative title and
short abstract by e-mail for approval to the Editorial Office at
materials@mdpi.com. In case you cannot meet the deadline, please feel free
to contact us.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the
authors and their institutes. More information is available at
http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. Article Processing Charges
(APC) are of 800 CHF for well prepared manuscripts submitted before 1
July 2012. The APC for manuscripts submitted from 1 July 2012 onwards
are 1000 CHF per accepted paper. For details see:
http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/instructions/. Manuscripts should be
submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at
http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Materials is an open access journal of materials science and engineering.
It provides a forum for papers that advance the understanding of the
relationship between the structure, properties and functions of all kinds of
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materials@mdpi.com.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
MDPI AG

On behalf of the Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Bill Plumbrige
Materials Engineering
The Open University, Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
UK
Website: http://materials.open.ac.uk/staff/staff_wjp.htm
E-Mail: w.plumbridge@open.ac.uk

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