The International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (IJMS) is an international forum for the publication and dissemination of original work which contributes to greater scientific understanding of the main disciplines underpinning the mechanical, civil and material engineering sciences.

Original contributions providing insight into the use of analytical, computational (e.g. FEM, BEM, mesh-free methods and others) modelling methods for rigid-body mechanics (e.g. dynamics, vibration, stability), structural mechanics, metal forming, behaviour and application of advanced materials (metals, composite, cellular, smart etc.), impact mechanics, strain localization and other effects of nonlinearity (e.g. large deflections, plasticity, fracture etc.), fluid mechanics (external and internal flows), tribology, thermodynamics and materials processing generally form the core of the journal contents.

The International Journal of Mechanical Sciences does not accept for publication material which quite specifically belongs with other established specialist journals. Papers whose concern is primarily with mathematical or computational techniques, developed within a general framework and not aimed at any specific engineering application, are not requested. Similarly, papers whose content is purely descriptive or empirical and which do not make any scientific contribution, will not be considered. Comparison with experiments/tests conducted by the authors or others to validate the main contribution of the paper are strongly encouraged, however design-based studies, based on established formulae and methods, are outside our scope and should not be submitted to the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.

Only original, innovative and novel papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and before considering their work, authors are required to confirm that their paper has not been submitted to any other journal in English or any other language. Occasionally, 'Letters to the Editor' are considered.

Original research papers, letters to the editor.

Joint Editors-in-Chief
M. Wiercigroch
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
K. Davey
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Associate Editors
C. Chen
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
H.F. Oztop
Firat University, Elazığ, Turkey
M. Savi
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Q. Wang
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Former Emeritus Editor-in-Chief
S. R. Reid
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Advisory Board
C.R. Calladine
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
N.A. Fleck
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
C. Guedes Soares
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
J.W. Hutchinson
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
N. Jones
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
T. Kapitaniak
Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland
T.J. Lu
Xian Jiaotong University, China
R. McMeeking
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
J.E. Mottershead
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
G. Rega
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
P.D. Spanos
Rice University, Dept. of Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Houston, Texas, USA
V. Tvergaard
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
T.X. Yu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Editorial Board Members
S. Abrate
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, United States
A.G. Atkins
University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
B. Balachandran
University of Maryland at College Park Department of Mechanical Engineering, College Park, Maryland, United States
J.R. Barber
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
M. Batista
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
A. Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
W. Chen
Zhejiang University Department of Engineering Mechanics, Hangzhou, China
M. Ciavarella
Polytechnic of Bar Centre of Excellence in Computational Mechanics, Bari, Italy
O. Civalek
Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
V. S. Deshpande
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
G. Genin
Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
H. Huh
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
D. Hui
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
D. Karagiozova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofiya, Bulgaria
A.W. Leissa
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
S. Lenci
Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
S. Li
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
C. Liu
Peking University, Beijing, China
G. Lu, PhD
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
D.A. Nethercot
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
N. Ohno
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
K. Osakada
Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering Science School of Engineering Science, Toyonaka, Japan
D. Roy
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
T. Siegmund
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Y. Tomita
Kobe University, Nada, Japan
G. Turvey
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Q. Wang
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
A.M. Zenkour
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia