journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-the-mechanics-and-physics-of-solids --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.