INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS

AIMS AND PROSPECT

The International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering is an international forum for the publication and dissemination of original work which contributes to the understanding of the main disciplines underpinning the mechanical and materials engineering. The journal places emphasis on the scientific and technological achievements and advanced experiments that are closely related to subjects, basic principles, new developments, and design in Mechanical and materials engineering

The Journal covers a broad spectrum of issues regarding properties of materials and how they apply to materials use in equipment and structures. Important recent topics include: principles of the micro-macro transition; elastic behavior; plastic behavior; high-temperature creep, fatigue, and fracture; as well as metals, polymers, ceramics, intermetallics, and their composites. Other areas of interest are: joining; mechanical behavior; environmental effects, machining; materials processing; constitutive relations; and microstructure property relationships. The journal also dealing with problems of kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies, theory of machines and mechanisms, vibration and balancing of machine parts, stability of mechanical systems, mechanics of continuum, strength of materials, fatigue of materials, hydromechanics, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, thermo fluids, energy systems and experimental methods in dynamics.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The journal will accept following types of contribution:

Case History Literature Review Theoretical Work Experimental Work Technical Notes/Letters/data bank

ORIGINALITY

Original paper, technical notes/letters published in all fields of mechanical and materials engineering. Case studies and papers that describe original work applicable to engineering practice are particularly encouraged. Submissions must be previously unpublished and may not be under consideration elsewhere.

LANGUAGE

Papers will be published in English and written in third person

REFEREEING

All papers submitted for possible publication will be reviewed by referees chosen because of their knowledge in the field concerned, experience in producing a balanced review, and ability to make a firm fair recommendation.

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Presentation

The manuscripts should be preceded by a separate cover sheet containing the title, names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of all authors, an abstract of the paper and maximum five key words. The abstract should not exceed 150 words and should be a summary of the entire paper.

Manuscripts should be typed doubled-spaced and double column with wide (2.5cm) margins, on one side of the paper only. The body of the manuscript should be preceded by the title of the paper, which should be brief. The paper should be subdivided into appropriate sections and, if necessary, subsections.

Mathematical and other symbols must be typewritten in word processing format.

Author(s) must use the International System of Units for describing dimensional results in the text, figures and tables.

Photographs and Illustrations

Submitting your illustrations, pictures, tables and other artwork (such as Multimedia- and Supplementary files) in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail. Photographs and illustrations submitted in electronic format should be at least 350dpi.

References

References to published literature should be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the paper in the following format:

Reference to a journal publication:

Reference to a book:

Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.

Reference to a conference paper:

MacGill, I., Outhred, H., Nolles, K., 2003a. Market-based environmental regulation in the restructured Australian electricity industry, In: Proceedings of the 26th International IAEE Conference, Prague, June.

References to online resources should also be quoted with the organization’s name, authors' name, title and URL.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright in published papers will be vested in the publisher. It is the authors' responsibility to obtain and submit all written permissions required, including permission to quote material which has appeared in another publication. Authors are required to sign and submit the completed "Copyright Transfer Form" upon acceptance of publication of the paper.

AUTHORS

Correspondence and proofs for correction will be sent to the first-named author who will be the corresponding author of the paper, unless otherwise indicated. Corrected page proofs must be returned direct to the editor within three days. Corrections shall be limited to typographical errors; no new material may be inserted. Corresponding author is responsible for updating affiliations and contacts of all of the authors.

LENGTH/PAGE

Papers may be up to 30 A4 pages long (double spacing with 12pt font size), including cover sheet, abstract, text, all images, figures and tables (no more than 2 images, figures and tables in one page), and all references.

AUTHORS COPY

A copy of CD version of the journal will be supplied to the corresponding author.

SUBMISSION AND ENQUIRIES.Manuscripts submission and enquiries should be addressed to:Associate Professor Dr. Saidur Rahman, Associate Editor-In-Chief Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Email: ijmme2005@gmail.comTel: +603-79674462Fax: +603-79675317

Published by Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, 2009