''The Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures'' is a

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covering research on the

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of materials and deformable structures of all types. It was established by

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, who was also the first

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History

The journal was established in 2006 after 21 of the 23 members of the editorial board of the '' International Journal of Solids and Structures'' resigned in protest of

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's "pressure for increased profits out of the limited institutional resources." In their founding issue, the editors of the new journal indicated several desires for the publication, including, "a low subscription price that will not grow faster than the number of pages and indeed may drop as the subscriber base expands."

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Ei Compendex,

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, and

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 0.987.

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