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Part II of Professor Christensen's paper on failure mechanics is published in...
researchFailure Mechanics—Part II: The Central and Decisive Roleof Graphene in Defining the Elastic and Failure Propertiesfor all Isotropic Materials Continuing from Part I (Christensen, 2014, “Failure...
View ArticleMary Boyce, Huajian Gao, Gary Leal and Liping Liu to receive the SES awards
Professor Mary Boyce (Columbia University) has been selected to receive the 2015 Engineering Science Medal from the Society of Engineering Sciences (SES); Professor Huajian Gao (Brown University) will...
View ArticleMany top mechanicians and material scientists have published in JAM in 2014
Many top mechanicians and material scientists have published in JAM in 2014, such asJanuary issue: R.M. Christensen;February issue: J.D. Embury; Z.P. Bazant; and Huajian Gao;April issue: J.D....
View ArticleProf. Kim's work on ruga mechanics is included (#30) in Discover's 100 top...
Professor Kyung-Suk Kim's work on ruga mechanics, published in June, 2014 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, has been included (#30) in Discover's 100 top stories of 2014 among the best in...
View ArticleStatistics of 2014 publications in Journal of Applied Mechanics
Here is the number of 2014 papers published in JAM from each country and region.79 -- USA;45 -- China (including Hong Kong);9 -- Canada; 5 -- Singapore;4 -- Italy; Japan; 3 -- France; India; Russia;...
View ArticleSubmissions to JAM have almost doubled
The submission to JAM in 2013 was ~42 manuscripts/month. Probably because of its rapid review process (1st round of review ~ 10 days, and 2nd round of review ~24 days including authors' revision time)...
View ArticleProfessor Xuanhe Zhao will receive the Journal of Applied Mechanics Award in...
Prof. Xuanhe Zhao from MIT will receive the 2015 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for his paper "Phase diagrams of instabilities in compressed film-substrate systems " (Journal of Applied Mechanics,...
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Professor Christensen published Part III of the failure theory in JAM
Professor Richard Christensen (Stanford University) published Part III of his series of papers on the failure theory. This is a short, but interesting view-point paper. The paper is attached (JAM,...
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JAM now publishes a new type of paper: A Perspective
researchJAM now publishes a new type of paper -- A Perspective. As invited by the Editor of JAM, the authors write a short (2~3 published pages) perspective paper on an emerging field, or an important...
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Median Review Time of all ASME Journals
researchI attended an ASME meeting during which the Managing Director of ASME Publishing reported on the ASME publications. Please find two of his slides related to the ASME journals, in which he...
View ArticleThe acceptance rate in JAM is reduced to 16% in 2015
The acceptance rate in JAM, according to ASME Publication Department, decreases from 33% in 2011 to 16% in 2015. The average review time is also reduced from 5 months to 1 month.
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2013 Koiter Medal paper published in JAM
The 2013 Koiter Medal paper by Professor Norman Fleck (Cambridge University) is published in the September, 2015 issue of JAM. The paper is attached. AttachmentSizejam_2013KoiterMedalPaper.pdf1.92 MB
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2014 Drucker Medal paper published in JAM
The 2014 Drucker Medal paper by Professor Lallit Anand (MIT) is published in the November, 2015 issue of JAM. The paper is attached. AttachmentSizejam_082_11_111005.pdf204.65 KB
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The second perspective paper is published in JAM
research JAM now publishes the perspective papers. As invited by the editor, the author (or authors) writes a short perspective paper on an emerging area of research related to mechanics, like the...
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Professor Christensen has published an interesting article in JAM
researchProfessor Richard Christensen, Stanford University, has published an interesting article "Evaluation of Ductile/Brittle Failure Theory and Derivation of the Ductile/Brittle Transition...
View ArticleProf. Kamrin from MIT will receive the 2016 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
mechanicianProfessor Ken Kamrin from MIT has been selected to receive the 2016 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for his paper “Eulerian Method for Multiphase Interactions of Soft Solid Bodies in...
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researchThanks to the efforts of the associate editors and reviewers, JAM continues to publish very fast. Among ~800 submissions in 2015, there are only 19 papers that are still under review as of...
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A perspective paper on flexoelectricity by Prof. Pradeep Sharma
researchA perspective paper on flexoelectricity by Professor Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston) is published in the March (2016) issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. A perspective paper...
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A perspective paper on material failure theory and applications
The Perspective papers published in Journal of Applied Mechanics have attracted a lot of readers, such as the first perspective paper by Huajian Gao (Brown University) which has been downloaded for...
View ArticleYihui Zhang will receive the 2017 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
The Journal of Applied Mechanics Award is provided by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to honor the best paper which has been published in the...
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Ares Rosakis and Huajian Gao received the von Karman medals together
mechanicianProfessor Ares Rosakis (Caltech) and Professor Huajian Gao (Brown University) were awarded the 2016 and 2017 von Karman Medals, respectively, by Professor JS Chen (UCSD), President of the...
View Articlethe new impact factor for JAM
The 2016 impact factor for Journal of Applied Mechanics has increased to 2.133. This increase is mainly due to the rapid review process, which has led to significant increase of submissions (and...
View ArticleCatalin Picu's talk at IMECE has been moved to session 12-7-1
The talk "Controlling the toughness and strength of random fiber networks" by R.C. Picu and S. Deogekar has been moved to session 12-7-1, Quantitative Visualization in Experimental Mechanics, scheduled...
View ArticleJAM is once again the fastest ASME journal
ASME just released its journal information for 2016. Among >30 journals published by ASME, JAM is once again the fastest, with the average review time (including the time for review, authors’...
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A Perspective Paper in JAM by Prof. Kulkarni
Professor Kurkarni (University of Houston) has published a very nice perspective paper "Thermal Fluctuations as a Computational Microscope for Studying Crystalline Interfaces: A Mechanistic...
View ArticleCharles Wojnar to receive the 2018 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
Professor Charles Wojnar from Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected to receive the 2018 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "Linking Internal Dissipation...
View ArticleJournal of Applied Mechanics continues to be a very fast journal
Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM) continues to be a very fast journal. Among all papers submitted in 2017, the average time from submission to the final decision (i.e., reject or accept) is less than...
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Professor Ahmed Elbanna to receive the 2019 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award
Professor Ahmed Elbanna from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to receive the 2019 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "On the role of the plaque porous...
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2018 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Lecture: Academic Family, by Prof. Ares Rosakis
The 2018 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech: Academic Family, by Prof. Ares Rosakis of California Institute of Technology, was just published in Journal of Applied Mechanics. The article is attached....
View ArticleJan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Engineering, Northwestern University
The Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University invite applications for the newly established...
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