Focus and Scope
Aims: Advances in Structure Mechanics is an international journal publishing reviews, original research contributions, and short communications and other types of paper. The scientific community is encouraged to submit the details of both their experimental and theoretical results of any length to the journal. It provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding of structure mechanics.
Scope:
aerodynamics
aerospace engineering
analytical mechanics
bio-mechanics
civil engineering
computer methods
contact mechanics
damage detection and assessment
damage mechanics
damage modelling
dynamics
elasticity
fatigue of materials
finite element analysis
fluid dynamics
fracture mechanics
heat transfer in solids
hydrodynamic
hydrostatics
kinematics
material mechanics
mathematical modelling
mechanical engineering
mechanics of composites
nuclear engineering
ocean engineering
plasticity
robots
solid mechanics
structural mechanics
structural modelling
structural systems
structure integrity
wear and tribology
Section Policies
ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review
Initial Checks
All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a professional in-house Managing Editor to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy or do not meet the standards of the journal will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission.
Peer-Review
Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A double-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are not known to reviewers and reviewers identities are not known to authors.
In the case of regular submissions, in-house assistant editors will invite experts, including recommendations by an academic editor. These experts may also include Editorial Board Members of the journal. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.
The reviewers will complete the review in 2-3 weeks.
Editorial Decision and Revision
All the articles, reviews, communications and other type papers published in this journal go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The in-house editor will communicate the decision of the academic editor, which will be one of the following:
Accept after Minor Revisions:
The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given 7 days for minor revisions.
Reconsider after Major Revisions:
The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.
Reject and Encourage Resubmission:
If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, the manuscript will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.
Reject:
The article has serious flaws, and/or makes no original significant contribution. No offer of resubmission to the journal is provided.
All reviewer comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response.
Publication Frequency
Most articles accepted and ready for publication in ASM are published Online First, prior to the assignment to one issue. Articles published Online First are copyedited and proofed by the in-house editors and author(s) before being published. Online First articles can be cited by the article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Every article has a unique DOI which is the permanent identifier of all versions of that article. A DOI will always be resolved to the latest version.
Open Access Policy
All articles published by Advances in Structural Mechanics are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:
everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in this journal;
everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given.