Mechanics Research Communications publishes, as rapidly as possible, peer-reviewed manuscripts of high standards but restricted length. It aims to provide:

• a fast means of communication
• an exchange of ideas among workers in mechanics
• an effective method of bringing new results quickly to the public
• an informal vehicle for the discussion
• of ideas that may still be in the formative stages

The field of Mechanics will be understood to encompass the behavior of continua, fluids, solids, particles and their mixtures. Submissions must contain a strong, novel contribution to the field of mechanics, and ideally should be focused on current issues in the field involving theoretical, experimental and/or applied research, preferably within the broad expertise encompassed by the Board of Associate Editors. Deviations from these areas should be discussed in advance with the Editor-in-Chief.

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Editor-in-Chief
A. Rosato
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States Email A. Rosato
Deputy Editor
P.M. Jordan
US Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, United States Email P.M. Jordan
Founding and Advising Editor (1939 - 2017)
B.A. Boley †
Columbia University Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, New York, United States
Regional Editors
L. Gaul
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
B.A. Schrefler
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Associate Editors
D. Bigoni
University of Trento, Trento, Italy Email D. Bigoni Expertise:Elasticity and elastoplasticity,Constitutive modelling of materials,Bifurcation and instability of solids and structures,Elastic metamaterials,Fracture mechanics,Behavior of ceramic materials
D.L. Blackmore
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States Email D.L. Blackmore Expertise:Dynamical systems,Fluid and granular flows,Geometric mechanics,Fractal geometry,Fractional differential equations
O. Cazacu
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States Email O. Cazacu Damage, Metal Plasticity and Viscoplasticity, Rock and Soil Mechanics, Mechanics of Particulate Materials, Penetration Mechanics
P. Eberhard
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Email P. Eberhard
F. Fraternali
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy Email F. Fraternali Expertise: Multiscale mechanics, Structural mechanics, Nonlinear dynamics, Mechanical metamaterials, Bio-inspired and sustainable materials, Tensegrity structures, Masonry structures, Form-finding, Mechanics of material forming
J. F. Ganghoffer
University of Lorraine National Graduate School of Electrical Science and Mechanics, Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, France Email J. F. Ganghoffer Solid mechanics. Mechanics of Generalized continua. Configurational mechanics. Biomechanics: tissue growth, bone mechanics.Mechanics of fibrous reinforced tissues (textile, soft biological tissues). Symmetry and similarity methods.
M M. Kamiński
Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland Email M M. Kamiński Expertise: Computational mechanics and engineering, Mathematical and numerical modelling of composite materials, Homogenization and sensitivity methods for composites, Multiresolutional wavelet-based and multiscale modelling, Stochastic methods and reliability in mechanics
P. Kelly
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Email P. Kelly Expertise:Mechanics of textiles / Fibrous materials,Mechanics of soft tissue,Large deformation plasticity,Composite materials: manufacturing processes,Linear elasticity
I. Kovacic
University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia Email I. KovacicNon-linear Oscillations, Analytical Mechanics, Non-Holonomic, Mechanics, Stellar Dynamics
J. Merodio
Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain Email J. Merodio Expertise:Continuum mechanics,Constitutive modelling (solids) for coupled fields,Material and structural instability,Biomechanics of soft tissue,Wave propagation,Composite materials
M. Ostoja-Starzewski
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States Email M. Ostoja-Starzewski random and fractal media, stochastic mechanics, continuum theories, waves, scaling laws, biomechanics, helices, geomechanics
E. Pan
University of Akron Department of Civil Engineering, Akron, Ohio, United States Email E. Pan Expertise:Theoretical and computational solid mechanics
G.H. Paulino
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Email G.H. PaulinoExpertise:Computational mechanics,Fracture mechanics,Topology optimization,Multiscale modelling,Functionally graded materials,Emerging materials and structural systems
D .J. Steigmann
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States Email D .J. Steigmann Mechanics of thin films and thin-film/substrate systems, Electromagnetic phenomena in solid mechanics; applications to thin-film/substrate problems, Surface stress, capillary phenomena, biological cell membranes, surfactant films, Diffusive phenomena, Finite elasticity, Variational methods and elastic stability, Tensile (membrane) structures, Continuum mechanics, Numerical analysis of ill-conditioned structural problems, Thin shells, Plasticity theory
K. Zhou
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Email K. Zhou Micro/Nano mechanics of materials & structures, Computational methods for material modeling behavior, Sustainable energy /green technologies
Board of Editors
N. Aubry
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
K.J. Bathe
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
D. E. Beskos
Patra, Greece
N. Gray
Manchester, United Kingdom
T.J.R. Hughes
Austin, Texas, United States
J. W. Hutchinson
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
L. M. Keer
Evanston, Illinois, United States
M.Y. Louge
Ithaca, New York, United States
G. Maier
Milano, Italy
A. Masud
Champaign, Illinois, United States
C. Mendoza
Rolla, Missouri, United States
R. W. Ogden
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
F. Prinz
Palo Alto, California, United States
S. B. Savage
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
E.C.N. Silva
São Paulo, Brazil