I 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 singled out JAM for its rapid publication.  The first slide is the median review time (from submission to editor’s final decision) in 2014 for all 27 ASME journals, for which JAM is the fastest -- 2 months (in 2014).  The second slide gives the median review time from 2010 to 2015 for JAM, and the newest data point is 1.2 months for 2015. 

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Call for Abstracts (2015 World Congress on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics)

Program: MS566 (in Conference of Multiscale and Multiphysics Mechanics)

Session: “Small-Scale, and Multiscale Biomechanics”

Spend a week at MIT and earn a certificate, a great opportunity for postdocs and graduate students. Limited number of fellowships available. 

June 22-26, 2015

URL: http://web.mit.edu/professional/short-programs/courses/multiscale_mater…

The Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the Composite and Heterogeneous Material Analysis and Simulation Laboratory (COHMAS, http://cohmas.kaust.edu.sa).

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In the latest volume of Engineering Fracture Mechanics there is an interesting paper about the calculation of crack growth paths by use of a phase field model. The considered material is inhomogeneous and that causes the crack to follow a winding path through the material. The material structure is from a CT scanned micro-structure of a cement-based porous material. The paper is:

Case study: Cyberwood

Article title: Microstructural evolution in bitaxial crack-seal veins: A phase-field study

We numerically investigate the characteristics of concurrent carbon redistribution pathways, as the ferrite–austenite front evolves during an isothermal eutectoid transformation starting from a random distribution of preexisting cementite particle. By analyzing the influence of initial interparticle spacing, arrangement and undercooling (below _A1 temperature) on the curvature-driven coarsening, we generalize the present criteria of non-cooperative eutectoid transformation.