| description abstract | Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) was founded in 1948 under the editorship of Lloyd Hamilton Donnell (1895–1997), in whose honor the biennial Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award was inaugurated in 2014. The founding of the journal, shortly after World War II, filled a void in the review of state-of-the-art research in applied mechanics, occupied before the war by the German periodical Zeitschrift für Mechanik. The inaugural volume included both Theodore von Karman and Stephen Timoshenko as Editorial Advisors.Over the years, the scope and purpose of AMR evolved. This reflected the changing nature of scientific research in the engineering sciences, the diversification of journal publications, and the development of alternative mechanisms for disseminating research among geographically distributed groups. Today, the journal aims to provide long-shelf-life, state-of-the-art survey articles, and retrospective reviews across all relevant subdisciplines of applied mechanics and engineering science, including fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration, and applications. Importantly, papers published in AMR emphasize added value beyond what is available in the existing literature. They do so through authoritative commentary and original synthesis, relating and contrasting the authors' original contributions to those of the community. | |
