The aim of this journal is to present the latest achievements in civil and mechanical engineering. We intend to publish papers written not only by Polish scientists, but also by scientists from foreign centres. This journal offers them all an opportunity to exchange ideas and experience.

The Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (ACME) Journal was subscribed to the following databases:

• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Journal Citation Reports / Science Edition

Many-year common activities of civil engineers and mechanical engineers under the aus-pices of Professor Edmund Małachowicz, the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences - Wrocław Branch, the Committee of Civil and Mechanical Engineering PAS - Wrocław Branch and the deans of the Civil Engineering Faculty and the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Wrocław University of Technology have given us an idea of publishing this journal. The idea has also been supported by Professor Andrzej Mulak, the President of the Wrocław University of Technology.

Numerous problems in the two scientific fields are closely related. The affinities are so strong that often it is hard to decide whether a given paper deals with civil or mechanical engineering. It is not only the main branches of knowledge such as applied mathematics, physics, chemistry and informatics, but first of all the basic fields of technology such as mechanics, theory of structures, materials science, computational methods for design, and manufacturing processes that can contribute to the solution of the engineering problems. Therefore, the scope of the journal cannot be too narrow.

ACME publishes both theoretical and experimental papers which explore or exploit new ideas and techniques in the following areas: structural engineering (structures, machines and mechanical systems), mechanics of materials (elasticity, plasticity, rheology, fatigue, fracture mechanics), materials science (metals, composites, ceramics, plastics, wood, concrete, etc., their structure and properties, methods of evaluation), manufacturing engineering (process design, simulation, diagnostics, maintenance, durability, reliability). In addition to research papers, the Editorial Board welcome: state-of-the-art reviews of specialized topics, letters to the Editor for quick publication, brief work-in-progress reports, brief accounts of completed doctoral thesis (one page is maximum), and bibliographical note on habilitation theses (maximum 250 words). All papers are subject to a referee procedure, except for letters, work-in-progress reports and doctoral and habilitation theses, which are briefly reviewed by the Editorial Board.

The papers submitted have to be unpublished works and should not be considered for publication elsewhere.

The Editorial Board would be grateful for all comments on the idea of the journal.

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