Special Issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews in Collaboration with the Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage

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.Since 2014, a handful of AMR issues have been dedicated to collaboration with other ASME technical journals to feature significant contributions for a specific discipline in a single issue. Such special issues have aimed to bring to the fore topics of interest to the broader community as well as experts in the discipline, thereby inviting cross-disciplinary collaboration and welcoming new entrants to the field. Past collaborations include with the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology and the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics in 2014; the ASME Journal of Tribology in 2017; the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics in 2018; and the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics in 2019.The November 2022 and January 2023 issues of AMR constitute the final installment in the series of such collaborations overseen by Harry Dankowicz, who finished his term as Editor-in-Chief in September 2022. These issues developed together with the ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage (JEECS) feature four review papers exemplifying state-of-the-art research in the mechanics of electrochemical energy conversion and storage. A companion Special Section on the Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage appeared in the November 2021 issue of JEECS and collected eight shorter papers reporting on original technical research with a similar focus [1].Originally founded in 2004 as the ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology and known by its new name since 2016, JEECS serves as a medium for rapid dissemination of original research results focused on processes, components, devices, and systems that store and convert electrical and chemical energy. The journal is a forum for research concerned with advanced materials development, synthesis, manufacturing, and characterization, as well as component, device, and systems design and analysis, with an interest in studies of reliability, durability, and damage tolerance. Areas of application include batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, separation membranes, electrochemical capacitors, thermogalvanic cells, and photo-electrochemical cells.The four featured reviews in the November 2022 and January 2023 issues of AMR are all concerned with rechargeable battery technologies. They focus on the interplay of mechanics and electrochemistry in driving a deterioration of battery capacity during repeated cycles of charging and discharging, as well as on phenomena that may induce mechanical and (catastrophic) electrochemical failure.In the work by Gandharapu and Mukhopadhyay (AMR 74(6), Novemb