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Jan 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 Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship (full professor), with particular focus on candidates who are world leaders in mechanics.

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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.

 

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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 structure in mussel adhesion: implications for adhesion control using bulk patterning", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 85, #121003, 2018.  The paper is attached.

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Journal 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 16 days.  These include the time for review and the time for authors' revisions (if needed).

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Charles 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 Mechanisms to the Effective Complex Viscoelastic Moduli of Ferroelectrics", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 84, #021006, 2017.

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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 Perspective," in the December, 2017 issue of Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM).  The paper is attached.

The perspective papers in JAM are invited short papers on an emerging field in mechanics, or some important new developments in an existing field in mechanics.

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JAM 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’ revision, and re-review) to be 42 days.  The second fastest ASME journal is 101 days.  As a result the impact factor of JAM (for whatever it is worth) exceeds 2.1.

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Catalin 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 November 06, 2017, 10:30AM - 12:15PM.  

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the 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 significant decrease of the acceptance rate).  The average time for the first round of review is < 10 days, and that for the second round of review (if necessary), including both the authors' revision time and reviewers' re-review time, is < 3 weeks.  

 

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Ares Rosakis and Huajian Gao received the von Karman medals together

Professor 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 Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE, at its annual conference in San Diego, CA, in June, 2017.

 

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Yihui 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 Journal of Applied Mechanics during the two calendar years immediately preceding the year of the award. The award will be made annually to the corresponding author of the paper who received their Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to July 1 of the year of award.

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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 >8,000 times.  A perspective paper, as invited by the editor of JAM, is very short (2~3 pages) and easy to read (like Readers' Digest) to reveal some emerging directions, or some important discoveries in clasical directions, in mechanics.

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A perspective paper on flexoelectricity by Prof. Pradeep Sharma

A 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 describes an important, emerging field in mechanics.  The first perspective paper, by Professor Huajian Gao (Brown University), has been downloaded more than 8000 times since its publication.  This new paper by Professor Sharma is the 3rd perspective paper published in JAM.  The paper is attached.

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JAM in 2015

Thanks 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 February 1, 2016.  In addition, the acceptance rate continues to decline, to ~16% in 2015. 

 

 

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Prof. Kamrin from MIT will receive the 2016 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award

Professor 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 Fluids” (JAM 82, 041011, 2015).

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Professor Christensen has published an interesting article in JAM

Professor Richard Christensen, Stanford University, has published an interesting article "Evaluation of Ductile/Brittle Failure Theory and Derivation of the Ductile/Brittle Transition Temperature" in the February, 2016, issue of Journal of Applied Mechanics.  This paper provides a very unique  approach to ductile/brittle transition.  The pdf file of the paper is attached.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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The 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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Median Review Time of all ASME Journals

I attended an ASME meeting during which the Managing Director of ASME Publishing reported on the ASME publications. 

 

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JAM now publishes a new type of paper: A Perspective

JAM 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 new discovery, in mechanics.  The inaugural perspective paper, "Toughening Graphene With Topological Defects: A Perspective" by Dr. Teng Zhang and Prof. Huajian Gao from Brown University, was published in the May issue, 2015.  The PDF of the paper is attached. 

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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, April issue, 2015).

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Professor Xuanhe Zhao will receive the Journal of Applied Mechanics Award in 2015

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, v 81, article 051003, 2013).  

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Submissions 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) and rapid publication (online within 48 hours after acceptance), the monthly submission is nearly doubled now.  For example, the submission in December, 2014 is 78 in a single month. 

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