Emphasizing contemporary research of immediate and potential application to mechanical, civil, aerospace, and automotive engineering as well as naval architecture, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines contains analytical, numerical, and experimental contributions of permanent interest to research engineers. In addition to classical applications such as structures and machine analysis and design, the journal encourages submission of new fundamental and interdisciplinary contributions of mechanics and mechanics-based design in emerging application areas such as robotics, automotive, space structures, smart structures, and micromachines.

Other technical areas of interest include high-speed computing, numerical methods, structural optimization, variational methods, stability, fatigue and fracture mechanics, plasticity, and related basic applied mechanics and mechanics-based design.
The journal publishes two types of articles: Research Papers and Innovative Application Briefs. Research Papers are limited to 11,000 equivalent words (about 20 typeset pages). Innovative Applications Briefs, which concern the application of existing mechanics and mechanics-based design methods toward the design of new innovative systems and devices, are limited to 5,500 equivalent words (about 10 typeset pages).
 
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. 

Editor-in-Chief:
CORINA SANDU 
Mechanical Engineering Department 
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 
Associate Editors 

F.J. ALONSO SÁNCHEZ - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain 
S. AZARM - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 
N. BANICHUK - Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 
D. CARUNTU - Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 
K.-H. CHANG - School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 
M. CHO - School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 
S. CHO - Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 
M. Z. DOSAEV -  Institute of Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 
J. FEHR - Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics,University of Stuttgart and SimTech, Stuttgart, Germany 
B. GAVREA - Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 
A. GHOSAL - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
F. J. GONZÁLEZ VARELA - Laboratorio de Ingeniería Mecánica, University of A Coruña, Ferrol, Spain 
J. LOGO - Department of Structural Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary 
J. McPHEE - Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
M. OHSAKI - Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 
A. PURWAR - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 
C. SANDU - Mechanical Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 
F. TORNABENE - Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Salento, Italy 
E. TUBALDI - Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, AZ 
C.P. VYASARAYANU - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India 
W-.C. XIE - Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 
J. YANG - School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 
K.K. ZUR - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, Bialystok, Poland