The aim is to publish research of the highest quality and of lasting significance on the mechanics of solids. The scope is broad, from fundamental concepts in mechanics to the analysis of novel phenomena and applications. Solids are interpreted broadly to include both hard and soft materials as well as natural and synthetic structures. The approach can be theoretical, experimental or computational. This research activity sits within engineering science and the allied areas of applied mathematics, materials science, bio-mechanics, applied physics, and geophysics.

The Journal was founded in 1952 by Rodney Hill, who was its Editor-in-Chief until 1968. The topics of interest to the Journal evolve with developments in the subject but its basic ethos remains the same: to publish research of the highest quality relating to the mechanics of solids. Thus, emphasis is placed on the development of fundamental concepts of mechanics and novel applications of these concepts based on theoretical, experimental or computational approaches, drawing upon the various branches of engineering science and the allied areas within applied mathematics, materials science, structural engineering, applied physics, and geophysics. 

The main purpose of the Journal is to foster scientific understanding of the processes of deformation and mechanical failure of all solid materials, both technological and natural, and the connections between these processes and their underlying physical mechanisms. In this sense, the content of the Journal should reflect the current state of the discipline in analysis, experimental observation, and numerical simulation. In the interest of achieving this goal, authors are encouraged to consider the significance of their contributions for the field of mechanics and the implications of their results, in addition to describing the details of their work.

Editor
Huajian Gao
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA Email Huajian Gao
Associate Editors
B. Audoly
Laboratoire de mécanique des solides, Palaiseau CEDEX, France
E. Kuhl
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
C. F. Niordson
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
P. Ponte Castañeda
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
M. T. A. Saif
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Pradeep Sharma
University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Senior Editorial Advisors
K. Bhattacharya
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
R.J. Clifton
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
L. B. Freund
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J. W. Hutchinson
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J.R. Rice
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J. R. Willis
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Editorial Advisors
M. C. Boyce
New York, New York, USA
V. S. Deshpande
Cambridge, England, UK
N. A. Fleck
Cambridge, England, UK
P. R. Guduru
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
R.D. James
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
R. Narasimhan
Bangalore, India
M. Ortiz
Pasadena, California, USA
T. Pardoen
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
G. Ravichandran
Pasadena, California, USA
Z. Suo
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
P. Suquet
Marseille, France
E. Van Der Giessen
AG Groningen, Netherlands
W. Yang
Hangzhou, China