固體、材料和結構力學從工程、材料和生物學的所有領域中吸取了經驗，正朝著幾年前沒有預料到的方向發展，包括需要多學科模擬的新技術的發展。該雜志通過強調與處理所有長度尺度問題相關的基本進展來刺激這一增長。具有小尺度現象與大尺度現象相互作用的多尺度問題日益引起人們的關注。該雜志的目標是出版和廣泛的電子傳播創新和重要的研究成果，在材料力學和所有類型的可變形結構。分析、計算和實驗結果必須有助于闡明通常涉及小或大變形狀態的物理現象。鼓勵使用可推廣到更廣泛問題類別的方法。

Drawing from all areas of engineering, materials, and biology, the mechanics of solids, materials, and structures is experiencing considerable growth in directions not anticipated a few years ago, which involve the development of new technology requiring multidisciplinary simulation. The journal stimulates this growth by emphasizing fundamental advances that are relevant in dealing with problems of all length scales. Of growing interest are the multiscale problems with an interaction between small and large scale phenomena. The journal has as its objective the publication and wide electronic dissemination of innovative and consequential research in mechanics of materials and deformable structures of all types. Analytical, computational, and experimental results must serve to clarify physical phenomena that typically involve small or large deformation states. Methods that can be generalized to a wider class of problems are encouraged.