Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters is very proud to announce the 2021 Best Paper Awards, 2021 Highest Citation Paper Award and 2021 Best Reviewer Award. Based on the recommendation and evaluated scores, the Editorial Board carefully evaluated the candidate papers, according to their originality, contributions to the field, quality of presentation, and soundness of the science. Finally the Editorial Board selected the following awards:

2021 Best Paper Awards:

Shaoqiang Tang, Yang Yang, Why neural networks apply to scientific computing? Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 11 (2021) 100242  http://taml.cstam.org.cn/article/doi/10.1016/j.taml.2021.100242?pageType=en

Chris Feist,  Fotis Sotiropoulos,  Michele Guala, A quasi-coupled wind wave experimental framework for testing offshore wind turbine floating systems, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 11 (2021) 100294 http://taml.cstam.org.cn/article/doi/10.1016/j.taml.2021.100294?pageType=en

2021 Highest Citation Paper Awards:

Sun Luning, Wang Jianxun, Physics-constrained bayesian neural network for fluid flow reconstruction with sparse and noisy data, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 10 (2020)161-169   http://taml.cstam.org.cn/article/doi/10.1016/j.taml.2020.01.031?pageType=en

Malikan Mohammad, On the plastic buckling of curved carbon nanotubes, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters 10 (2020) 46-56   http://taml.cstam.org.cn/article/doi/10.1016/j.taml.2020.01.004?pageType=en

2021 Best Reviewer Awards:

Jianhua Qin, Institute of Mechanics ,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Jinhan Xie, Peking University, China

Let us congratulate the authors and the reviewers for their significant contributions to the state-of-the-art. These awarded papers make significant contributions beyond the topics to the Mechanics field more generally.

Guowei He & Yonggang Huang

Editor-in-Chief