Experimental mechanics and experimental numerical coupling

I think it is interesting to discuss the topics that can be covered in this journal, because mechanics is a very broad field. I have been working on these topics for several years and I think that this could be an interesting topic for this journal. I do not pretend to manage such a theme, but I am quite ready to help in its implementation, by talking about it in the GDR2519 network (old working group on field measurements) and with my close collaborators, and by submitting work in this epijournal.

Maybe the idea to propose some topics linked to past or present GDR could be an interesting idea, cause they already emerged from discussions and topics in which a group is already involved. Restricting the topic of a whole epi-journal to a unique GDR topic would nevertheless be not broad enough.

I totally agree. I have not a lot of connections outside my French colleagues on this subject, I also think that we need to broaden the horizon, but from what I see, even if we speak English in the forums, the majority of contributors are French-speaking. On a personal level, I can exchange with former members of the GDR2519, but it is more difficult for me to find an international audience. However, I am part of the organization of the WCCM mini-symposium, it would be interesting to discuss this new solution at this conference.

Here is the description of the symposium :

A mini-symposium, entitled: "MS163: IDENTIFICATION OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIAL PROPERTIES", is proposed during the Eccomas International Congress and the 14th WCCM in Paris which will take place from 19 to 24 July 2020.

The objective of this symposium is to bring together researchers working on advanced computer techniques, mechanical simulation and the development of digital imaging techniques on heterogeneous materials to exchange ideas, present new developments and discuss recent advances.

The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2019 (https://www.wccm-eccomas2020.org/frontal/Autor.asp).

You are invited to submit your work and encourage your doctoral candidates/researchers to participate to make this mini-symposium fully beneficial for all.

I wholeheartedly agree. Experimental-numerical coupling is still an oddity in our publication spectrum, with neither computational journals nor experimental ones having clear politics on these topics. This results in scatter, difficult/inexpert reviews, and ultimately much difficulty for the end-user to find reliable information. If this epi-journal aims at covering mechanics as a whole, such a topic could be an original defining feature! I'm willing to contribute as an industrial end-user indeed.

This is a very good idea to advertise the journal-to-be-born in our community (I am also working with DIC and experimental mechanics). We have built an international scientific comity that will be in charge of the balance of topics in the journal and some are well involved into experimental mechanics. I would encourage you all to being watchful and make sure that the scientific comity make a good job! We will need feedback from everyone to turn this overlay journal into a meaningful journal for our communities.

Now that the board is public, could you point out the people that you know being in the experimental mechanics coupling with numerical studies ?
It will greatly help me to reach them for WCCM minisymposium.

I am wondering if this journal would include fluid mechanics ?

I thiink it is a good question, and I think that to include fluid mechanics is a bad idea. First, this is absolutly not the same community, numerical methods are often differents, experimental methods are very differents (Even PIV/DIC are used, it is with with very different constrains).
The field of solid mechanics seems to me sufficiently broad.