The Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University invite applications for the newly established Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship (full professor), with particular focus on candidates who are world leaders in mechanics.
The 2018 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech: Academic Family, by Prof. Ares Rosakis of California Institute of Technology, was just published in Journal of Applied Mechanics. The article is attached.
Professor Ahmed Elbanna from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to receive the 2019 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "On the role of the plaque porous structure in mussel adhesion: implications for adhesion control using bulk patterning", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 85, #121003, 2018. The paper is attached.
Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM) continues to be a very fast journal. Among all papers submitted in 2017, the average time from submission to the final decision (i.e., reject or accept) is less than 16 days. These include the time for review and the time for authors' revisions (if needed).
Professor Charles Wojnar from Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected to receive the 2018 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "Linking Internal Dissipation Mechanisms to the Effective Complex Viscoelastic Moduli of Ferroelectrics", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 84, #021006, 2017.
Professor Kurkarni (University of Houston) has published a very nice perspective paper "Thermal Fluctuations as a Computational Microscope for Studying Crystalline Interfaces: A Mechanistic Perspective," in the December, 2017 issue of Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM). The paper is attached.
The perspective papers in JAM are invited short papers on an emerging field in mechanics, or some important new developments in an existing field in mechanics.
ASME just released its journal information for 2016. Among >30 journals published by ASME, JAM is once again the fastest, with the average review time (including the time for review, authors’ revision, and re-review) to be 42 days. The second fastest ASME journal is 101 days. As a result the impact factor of JAM (for whatever it is worth) exceeds 2.1.
The talk "Controlling the toughness and strength of random fiber networks" by R.C. Picu and S. Deogekar has been moved to session 12-7-1, Quantitative Visualization in Experimental Mechanics, scheduled November 06, 2017, 10:30AM - 12:15PM.
The 2016 impact factor for Journal of Applied Mechanics has increased to 2.133. This increase is mainly due to the rapid review process, which has led to significant increase of submissions (and significant decrease of the acceptance rate). The average time for the first round of review is < 10 days, and that for the second round of review (if necessary), including both the authors' revision time and reviewers' re-review time, is < 3 weeks.
Professor Ares Rosakis (Caltech) and Professor Huajian Gao (Brown University) were awarded the 2016 and 2017 von Karman Medals, respectively, by Professor JS Chen (UCSD), President of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE, at its annual conference in San Diego, CA, in June, 2017.
