1. Thanks to our Reviewers

   Editorial 01 February 2016 Pages: 275 - 278

2. Continuum effective-stress approach for high-rate plastic deformation of fluid-saturated geomaterials with application to shaped-charge jet penetration

   • Michael A. Homel
   • James E. Guilkey
   • Rebecca M. Brannon

   Original Paper 12 August 2015 Pages: 279 - 310

3. Phase slip solutions in magnetically modulated Taylor–Couette flow

   • Rainer Hollerbach
   • Farzana Khan

   Original Paper 19 August 2015 Pages: 311 - 319

4. The transmission properties of elastic waves through multilayers of spheres with planar defects

   • Qiang Zhao
   • P. J. Wei
   • Qiheng Tang

   Original Paper 28 August 2015 Pages: 321 - 331

5. On the modeling of tilted fixed-guided flexible beams under tension

   • Ali Bazaei
   • Mohammad Maroufi
   • S. O. Reza Moheimani

   Original Paper 28 August 2015 Pages: 333 - 352

6. Numerical investigation of the configuration of the pools on the flow pattern passing over pooled stepped spillway in skimming flow regime

   • Khosro Morovati
   • Afshin Eghbalzadeh
   • Mitra Javan

   Original Paper 28 August 2015 Pages: 353 - 366

7. Derivation of Cosserat’s medium equations using different multi-dimensional frameworks

   • Benoit Panicaud
   • Emmanuelle Rouhaud

   Original Paper 10 September 2015 Pages: 367 - 385

8. Equivalent inclusion approach and effective medium approximations for the effective conductivity of isotropic multicomponent materials

   • Q. H. Do
   • A. B. Tran
   • D. C. Pham

   Original Paper 24 September 2015 Pages: 387 - 398

9. Frequency-dependent tensile and compressive effective moduli of elastic solids with distributed penny-shaped microcracks

   • Youxuan Zhao
   • Yanjun Qiu
   • Jianmin Qu

   Original Paper 24 September 2015 Pages: 399 - 419

10. Rapid heating of FGM rectangular plates

    • S. M. Alipour
    • Y. Kiani
    • M. R. Eslami

    Original Paper 25 September 2015 Pages: 421 - 436

11. Modeling the response of polymer–ionic liquid electromechanical actuators

    • A. D. Drozdov

    Original Paper 26 September 2015 Pages: 437 - 465

12. Energy integrals for the systems with nonholonomic constraints of arbitrary form and origin

    • Djordje Mušicki
    • Dragomir Zeković

    Original Paper 28 September 2015 Pages: 467 - 493

13. Analytical solutions for an infinite transversely isotropic functionally graded sectorial plate subjected to a concentrated force or couple at the tip

    • D. J. Huang
    • B. Yang
    • H. J. Ding

    Original Paper 29 September 2015 Pages: 495 - 506

14. Poro-elasto-plastic modeling of complex hydraulic fracture propagation: simultaneous multi-fracturing and producing well interference

    • HanYi Wang

    Original Paper 29 September 2015 Pages: 507 - 525

15. Analysis of nanocontact problems of layered viscoelastic solids with surface energy effects under different loading patterns

    • Alaa A. Abdel Rahman
    • Fatin F. Mahmoud

    Original Paper 08 October 2015 Pages: 527 - 548

16. On the dynamic response of beams on elastic foundations with variable modulus

    • M. A. Foyouzat
    • M. Mofid
    • J. E. Akin

    Original Paper 13 October 2015 Pages: 549 - 564

17. The unsteady hydrodynamic force during the collision of two spheres in a viscous fluid

    • Julian A. Simeonov

    Original Paper 15 October 2015 Pages: 565 - 580

18. Vibration analysis of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite shell structures

    • Benedict Thomas
    • Tarapada Roy

    Original Paper 16 October 2015 Pages: 581 - 599

19. A finite element analysis of some boundary value problems for a new type of constitutive relation for elastic bodies

    • S. Montero
    • R. Bustamante
    • A. Ortiz-Bernardin

    Original Paper 22 October 2015 Pages: 601 - 615