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journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids
GitHub用于评估稿件是否符合JMPS期刊要求，提供选题定位、内容重构建议及拒稿预判。适用于决定投稿方向（如与塑性期刊区分）、提升物理洞察与数学严谨性，或检查基础固体力学研究的适配度。
Trigger Scenarios
作者提名JMPS并需进行适配性或框架检查
需要将模拟研究重构为一般机制或原理
在JMPS与塑性中心期刊间犹豫
需要了解JMPS的录用标准及拒稿启发式规则
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids",
"description": "Use when targeting the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS) or deciding whether a fundamental solid-mechanics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the physical-insight-plus-mathematical-rigor bar, breadth across solid mechanics, the JMPS-vs-plasticity-journal routing, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids)
Journal positioning
The Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (JMPS) is a leading archival journal for fundamental solid mechanics: constitutive theory, fracture and damage, micromechanics, instabilities and bifurcation, and the mechanics of soft and active materials. Its defining expectation is a genuine advance in physical understanding of how solids deform, fail, or respond — delivered with mathematical rigor and, where relevant, decisive experimental or computational evidence. JMPS rewards papers that uncover a mechanism or a governing principle, not papers that run a finite-element case study of one geometry and report numbers. Breadth is intentional: plasticity is one of many topics here, alongside elasticity, waves, contact, and continuum-to-microstructure bridging. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live JMPS Guide for Authors.
When to trigger
- The author names JMPS for a solid-mechanics manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A mechanics paper must be re-framed from "we simulated this structure" into a general mechanism, model, or principle of solid behavior.
- The author is deciding between JMPS (broad fundamental solid mechanics) and a
plasticity-centric venue (
international-journal-of-plasticity). - The author needs JMPS's insight-plus-rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Constitutive theory and continuum mechanics: finite-deformation kinematics, thermodynamically consistent material models, nonlinear elasticity.
- Fracture, damage, and failure: crack-tip fields, cohesive/phase-field fracture, fatigue mechanics, and toughening principles with a governing-law contribution.
- Micromechanics and homogenization: linking microstructure to effective response, defect mechanics, dislocation and interface mechanics.
- Instabilities, bifurcation, and pattern formation: buckling, wrinkling, localization, and post-instability response in structured or soft solids.
- Mechanics of soft, active, and architected materials: gels, elastomers, growth/morphogenesis, mechanical metamaterials, coupled multiphysics response.
- Waves, contact, and adhesion when the contribution is a mechanism or analytical result, not a parametric simulation sweep.
Method & evidence bar
- The central object is a mechanism or governing principle of solid behavior, derived with mathematical care — not a number produced by a black-box solver.
- Analysis must be rigorous: clearly stated kinematics and constitutive assumptions, correct field equations, and derivations that a specialist can verify.
- Computation, when central, must be a means to physical insight (mechanism, scaling, bifurcation structure) — a converged FE simulation of one part is not a result.
- Experiments, when present, should isolate the mechanism and be quantitatively compared to theory, with controlled conditions and reported uncertainty.
- Position the contribution against the closest mechanics results: what new physics, weaker assumptions, or broader class of behavior does it establish.
- Reproducibility: state the model, boundary/initial conditions, and any numerical scheme in enough detail that the analysis can be reconstructed.
Structure & house style
- Standard full-length research-article structure; JMPS publishes archival papers, not rapid letters — route urgent short results elsewhere and re-check article types on the live guide.
- The introduction motivates the mechanics gap (what is not understood), not an application; the body develops theory, then evidence, then physical interpretation.
- Equations are load-bearing and must be self-consistent; notation should follow standard continuum-mechanics conventions and be defined on first use.
- Figures support the argument: field maps, bifurcation/phase diagrams, theory-vs-data overlays, and mechanism schematics — not decorative renderings.
- Lengthy derivations and supporting computations go to appendices/supplementary material; the main text must carry the central insight unaided.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Elsevier anchors, then cite the current JMPS Guide for Authors page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier/Editorial Manager version.
- Re-check article types, length/figure expectations, and the data- and code-availability policy for computational work.
- Confirm formatting of equations, notation, and any structured-abstract or highlights requirement.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution (CRediT), and AI-use disclosure requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a mechanism or governing principle of solid behavior, not a one-off finite-element case study.
- Kinematics, constitutive assumptions, and field equations are stated explicitly and are internally consistent.
- Any computation serves physical insight (scaling, bifurcation, mechanism), not just a converged number.
- Experiments, if used, isolate the mechanism and are compared quantitatively to theory.
- Novelty is pinned to specific prior mechanics results (new physics / weaker assumptions / broader class).
- The article type and length fit JMPS's archival full-paper format.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Applied finite-element case study of one component or geometry with no fundamental advance.
- Parametric simulation sweep reported as a result, with no mechanism or governing law extracted.
- Constitutive model proposed with no derivation, thermodynamic consistency, or validation.
- Experiment-only report of a deformation/failure observation without mechanics interpretation.
- Scope mismatch: a materials-processing, structural-design, or pure-numerical-methods paper with mechanics as a label.
- Better framed as a plasticity-specific constitutive study or a materials/structures application.
Re-routing decision
- Plastic deformation / constitutive-model-centric contribution →
international-journal-of-plasticity. - Microstructure-first mechanism (processing–structure–property) →
acta-materialia. - Composite-material mechanics or structural composites →
composites-part-b-engineering. - AM-process-driven mechanics with materials focus →
additive-manufacturing. - Highest-impact conceptual mechanics-of-materials advance for a broad audience →
nature-materials.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest solid-mechanics subtopics>
[Mechanism/principle] <the governing insight in one line>
[Method/evidence] <does the analysis clear JMPS's insight + rigor bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / data-code / abstract / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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