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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. 

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. 

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).

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).  

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. 

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; UK;

2 -- Germany; Israel; South Korea;

1 -- Iceland; Iran; Netherlands; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan.

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 science from the past year in the 2015 January issue.

 http://discovermagazine.com/2015/jan-feb

Many top mechanicians and material scientists have published in JAM in 2014, such as

January issue: R.M. Christensen;

February issue: J.D. Embury; Z.P. Bazant; and Huajian Gao;

April issue: J.D. Achenbach;

May issue: P.D. Spanos;

June issue: E.H. Dowell;

July issue: V. Tvergaard and J.W. Hutchinson;

August issue: R.M. Christensen;

October issue: D.R. Clarke; and Z.P. Bazant;

November issue: R.M. Christensen; L.B. Freund; Zhigang Suo; and J.A. Rogers

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 receive the Prager Medal; Prof. Gary Leal (UCSB) will receive the Taylor Medal; and Professor Liping Liu (Rutgers University) will receive the Young Investigator Medal.

Failure Mechanics—Part II: The Central and Decisive Role

of Graphene in Defining the Elastic and Failure Properties

for all Isotropic Materials

Continuing from Part I (Christensen, 2014, “Failure Mechanics—Part I: The Coordination

Between Elasticity Theory and Failure Theory for all Isotropic Materials,” ASME J.

Appl. Mech., 81(8), p. 081001), the relationship between elastic energy and failure specification

is further developed. Part I established the coordination of failure theory with