Aims & Scope

Materials, Mechanics and Structures are the intertwined and cross-disciplinary subjects addressing the critical issues and sustained development in the area of structural engineering in general. While structural engineering is traditionally viewed as a sub-branch or sub-discipline within civil engineering, though many other engineering disciplines such as aerospace, mechanical, and ocean/marine engineering contain similar structural components and systems. In all these mentioned engineering disciplines, they involve various structural materials used, with the aid of mechanics in analysis, design and optimization. In the overall design analysis philosophy and criteria, the analytical (or theoretical), experimental, and numerical tools are employed for characterization and visualization of structural response. In particular, with the rapid expansion and growth of material technology, computational and simulation capability, and experimental instrumentation, coupled with AI revolution, disciplinary differences in materials, mechanics and structures are disappearing in developing new structural materials, improved computational tools, and advanced structural systems. Nowadays, development and innovation in structural materials and engineering are increasingly cross-disciplinary over many traditional and emerging engineering areas.

With the above background of structural engineering in mind, this journal is dedicated to the exploration of broad cross-disciplinary research in materials, mechanics and structures, emphasizing its contribution to achieving a more sustainable use of natural resources and lowering carbon emission. This encompasses advancements in emerging and sustainable structural materials, multiscale and multiphysics modeling and simulations with mechanics principles, new structural systems. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Specifically, the journal of Structural Materials and Engineering (SME) focuses on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Sustainable and low carbon materials
  • Structural materials
  • Renewable materials
  • High-performance infrastructure materials
  • Multifunctional materials
  • Materials testing and characterization techniques
  • Multiscale and multiphysics modeling, simulation and characterization
  • Structural dynamics
  • Computational methods and tools
  • Data-driven computing in materials and structures
  • AI in structural materials and engineering
  • Smart materials and structures
  • Structural systems
  • Structural response of built infrastructure due to natural disasters and climate change
  • Structural resilience and durability
  • Structural reliability and risk analysis
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Structural control