Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials

Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE Publications on the science, technology and professional practice of sandwich construction. Founded in 1999, it carries analysis, design, testing, manufacturing and quality assurance work on panels built from thin facesheets and a lightweight core. The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 and the five-year figure is 3.0.《夹层结构与材料杂志》由 SAGE Publications 出版，是一份经同行评审的期刊，关注夹层结构的科学、技术与专业实践。刊物 1999 年创刊，刊载薄面板与轻质芯材粘接而成的板件在分析、设计、试验、制造与质量保证方面的研究。2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，五年影响因子为 3.0。

Scope

• The aim, as stated, is an international peer reviewed journal publishing developments in the science, technology and professional practices of sandwich construction throughout the world, a wording carried on the journal home page.公开宗旨写明，本刊是一份国际性同行评审期刊，刊载世界各地夹层结构在科学、技术与专业实践方面的进展，这段措辞一直保留在刊物主页上。

• Analysis forms the first heading, taking in bending, buckling, vibration and blast response, together with the plate and panel theories that predict them, from first-order shear deformation to higher-order layerwise models.分析排在第一位，涵盖弯曲、屈曲、振动与爆炸响应，也涵盖预测这些行为的板件理论，从一阶剪切变形理论到高阶层合模型都在其中。

• Design covers the sizing of facesheets and cores against stiffness and strength targets, and the weight that every kilogram of core taken out buys back in a wing, a hull or a blade.设计一项处理面板与芯材在刚度与强度目标下的尺寸选取，也处理减重带来的回报，机翼、船体或叶片上每省下一公斤芯材都算数。

• Testing brings in the bench work of the field, four-point bending, flatwise compression, core shear, edgewise compression and fatigue cycling, with specimen design treated as part of the result.试验纳入这一领域的常规台架工作，四点弯曲、平面压缩、芯材剪切、侧压与疲劳循环都在其中，试件设计被当作结果的一部分来对待。

• Applications run across aerospace, marine, civil infrastructure, rail vehicles, wind turbine blades and road transport, the settings where sandwich panels earn the weight they save.应用覆盖航空航天、船舶、土木基础设施、轨道车辆、风电叶片与道路运输，这些场合正是夹层板件靠减重立足的地方。

• Manufacturing covers core splicing and shaping, adhesive bonding of facesheets, resin infusion, prepreg layup and the newer additive routes that print an architected core in one pass.制造涵盖芯材拼接与成型、面板胶接、树脂灌注、预浸料铺层，以及较新的增材制造路线，后者一次成型即打印出构型芯材。

• Material properties are treated for polymeric and metal foams, aluminium and Nomex honeycombs, balsa, truss and lattice cores, syntactic foams and graded core stacks.材料性能一项涉及聚合物泡沫与金属泡沫、铝蜂窝与 Nomex 蜂窝、巴沙木、桁架芯材与点阵芯材、复合泡沫以及梯度芯材叠层。

• Strength and stiffness verification holds a heading of its own, with facesheet wrinkling, core shear failure, indentation, debonding and panel collapse as the modes to be predicted and then checked against test.强度与刚度验证单列一项，面板起皱、芯材剪切失效、压痕、脱粘与板件塌陷都是需要先预测再与试验对照的失效模式。

• Quality assurance covers the inspection side, ultrasonic scanning, thermography, shearography and tap testing, along with the acceptance criteria that decide whether a panel may fly.质量保证落在检测一侧，超声扫描、红外热像、剪切散斑与敲击检测都在其中，判据则决定一块板件能否装机。

• Joints and connections are part of the picture, with inserts, edge close-outs, potted fasteners and bonded splices deciding the strength of a structure that is only as good as its interfaces.连接与接头同样在内，嵌件、封边、灌封紧固件与胶接拼接决定结构强度，界面好坏直接决定整体表现。

• The description closes on current research, a phrasing that keeps the emphasis on work in progress.描述以当前研究收尾，重心落在进行中的课题上。

• Sustainability has moved into the core itself, with recycled PET foams, bio-based cores and the end-of-life question for thermoset sandwich panels now treated as design constraints.可持续性已经进入芯材层面，再生 PET 泡沫、生物基芯材以及热固性夹层板件的报废处理，如今被当作设计约束来处理。

• Architected and additively manufactured cores, from octet trusses to triply periodic minimal surfaces, extend the property space the title follows, and they bring their own manufacturing defects.构型芯材与增材制造芯材，从八面体桁架到三周期极小曲面，拓展了刊物跟踪的性能空间，也带来各自的制造缺陷。

• Durability appears through moisture uptake, fire performance, thermal cycling and long-term creep of cores, questions that decide whether a laboratory panel survives twenty years in service.耐久性通过吸湿、耐火、热循环与芯材长期蠕变体现，这些问题决定实验室里的板件能否在服役环境中撑过二十年。

• Numerical modelling runs through all of these, with finite element homogenisation, cohesive zone models for debonding and damage models that must reproduce the test curve before anyone trusts them.数值模拟贯穿以上各项，有限元均匀化、脱粘的内聚区模型以及损伤模型，都要先复现试验曲线才谈得上可信。

History

• The first volume appeared in 1999 under Technomic Publishing of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the imprint the National Library of Medicine still records as the title's original publisher.第 1 卷于 1999 年问世，出版方为宾夕法尼亚州兰开斯特的 Technomic Publishing，美国国家医学图书馆的著录至今仍把它记作原出版者。

• Volume numbers have run without a break since then, so volume 27 carries 2025 and volume 28 carries 2026 in the Crossref record, which fixes volume 1 at 1999.此后卷号没有中断，Crossref 记录中第 27 卷对应 2025 年，第 28 卷对应 2026 年，据此可以确认第 1 卷即 1999 年。

• Ownership passed to SAGE Publications, whose Thousand Oaks, California imprint replaced Lancaster in the catalogue and whose name now stands on the masthead of every issue.出版权后来转到 SAGE Publications，目录中的出版地由兰开斯特改为加利福尼亚州千橡市，刊头也换成这家出版社的名字。

• Eight issues a year is the current rhythm. The National Library of Medicine dates that figure to 2018, and Crossref lists eight issues in each of volumes 23 to 27.现行刊期为每年 8 期。美国国家医学图书馆把这一数字追溯到 2018 年，Crossref 则为第 23 卷至第 27 卷各记 8 期。

• Nothing in the record points to combined numbers, so a year delivers eight separate issues, and each volume runs from issue 1 to issue 8.记录中没有合期或并号的痕迹，一年发满 8 个独立期号，每卷都从第 1 期排到第 8 期。

• The title is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and the National Library of Medicine gives PubMed coverage as selected citations only, which means part of the content rather than the whole run.刊物被 Science Citation Index Expanded 收录，美国国家医学图书馆对 PubMed 的著录为仅选部分文章，也就是只覆盖一部分内容而非全部卷期。

• It is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics, a line carried on the home page beside the journal description.本刊是出版伦理委员会（COPE）的成员，这句话与刊物描述并列放在主页上。

• Access is hybrid. Subscribers read the whole run, authors may pay for open access, and gold open access accounts for 7.8 percent of the 2025 content.访问模式为混合型。订阅用户可以读到全部卷期，作者也可以选择开放获取，2025 年金色开放获取占全部内容的 7.8%。

• The Journal Citation Indicator for 2025 is 0.51 and the percentile 58.1, figures that place the title just above the middle of its field.2025 年的期刊引文指标为 0.51，百分位为 58.1，位置略高于本领域中位。

• Citations to the journal total 2,650, it published 75 articles in 2025, and the cited half-life is 5.6 years, short enough to show a field that keeps replacing its own literature.刊物累计被引 2650 次，2025 年发文 75 篇，被引半衰期为 5.6 年，这个数字偏短，说明所在领域更新自身文献的速度很快。

• Journal Citation Reports puts it 85th of 184 in Engineering, Mechanical and 16th of 37 in Materials Science, Characterization & Testing, both second quartile, then 24th of 35 in Materials Science, Composites, third quartile.Journal Citation Reports 把它排在工程机械类 184 种期刊中的第 85 位，材料科学表征与测试类 37 种中的第 16 位，两项均属第二四分位，材料科学复合材料类 35 种中排第 24 位，属第三四分位。

• Articles reach the site as OnlineFirst, complete and citable with a DOI, before they are gathered into one of the eight annual issues.文章以 OnlineFirst 形式先上线，正文完整并带有 DOI，可以直接引用，随后再编入全年 8 期中的某一期。

• The subject has not been widened into composite mechanics at large. Sandwich construction, with facesheet, core and interface as the unit of study, has stayed the organising idea.刊物没有把范围扩展到一般复合材料力学。面板、芯材与界面作为研究单元，夹层结构始终是组织稿件的核心概念。

• The description on the home page spells the title with and rather than the ampersand of the masthead, a small inconsistency that persists in the 2025 capture.主页的描述文字把刊名写作 and 连接的形式，与刊头上的 & 不一致，这处小差别在 2025 年的存档里仍然存在。

Editors

• The editorial board captured on 5 November 2021 lists Leif A. Carlsson of Florida Atlantic University as Editor, with no co-editor named beside him.2021 年 11 月 5 日抓取的编委页把（Leif A. Carlsson）列为编辑，任职于 Florida Atlantic University，其下没有并列主编。

• Francis Avilés Cetina of the Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán in Mexico holds the single Deputy Editor post on that same 2021 page.（Francis Avilés Cetina）来自墨西哥的 Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán，在同一份 2021 年名单上担任唯一的副编辑。

• Twenty-four board members are listed with affiliations but without research-area tags, drawn from thirteen countries, ten of them in the United States and three in the United Kingdom.编委 24 人只列单位不列研究方向，分布在 13 个国家，其中美国 10 人，英国 3 人。

• The spread is wide for a title of this size, with seats at Cambridge, Delft, the Technion, the Indian Institute of Science, the University of Tokyo, Concordia, RMIT, Auckland and KTH.对这样规模的期刊来说，这份名单铺得很开，Cambridge、Delft、Technion、Indian Institute of Science、University of Tokyo、Concordia、RMIT、Auckland 与 KTH 都有人。

• Names familiar from the sandwich literature fill the list, among them Norman Fleck, Ronald Gibson, Dan Zenkert, Adrian Mouritz, George Kardomateas, Victor Birman and C.T. Sun.夹层结构文献里熟悉的名字填满名单，（Norman Fleck）、（Ronald Gibson）、（Dan Zenkert）、（Adrian Mouritz）、（George Kardomateas）、（Victor Birman）与（C.T. Sun）都在其中。

• Seven Members Emeritus appear below the board, Howard G. Allen, Charles W. Bert, Michael W. Hyer, Hans-Reinhard Meyer-Piening, Ahmed K. Noor, Karl-Axel Olsson and Guruswami Ravichandran, three of them marked deceased.编委名单之下另有 7 位荣休编委，（Howard G. Allen）、（Charles W. Bert）、（Michael W. Hyer）、（Hans-Reinhard Meyer-Piening）、（Ahmed K. Noor）、（Karl-Axel Olsson）与（Guruswami Ravichandran），其中 3 人标注为已故。

• The 18 November 2025 capture of the home page carries a call for an Editor-in-Chief, with applications accepted through 30 December 2025, so the 2021 masthead cannot be assumed to stand today.2025 年 11 月 18 日的主页存档挂出主编招聘启事，申请截止 2025 年 12 月 30 日，2021 年那份名单因此不能当作今天的现状。

• Nothing on the captured pages names a single-blind or double-blind model. Review is described as peer review, and no finer account of the process is given.已抓取的页面上没有写明单盲还是双盲。评审方式只写作同行评审，未作更细的说明。

• Two defence research organisations hold seats, the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory, which fits a journal whose applications run to ships and aircraft.两个国防研究机构在编委之列，分别是 Office of Naval Research 与 Air Force Research Laboratory，这与刊物面向船舶和飞机的应用取向相符。

• There is no associate editor tier on the 2021 page. The Editor and the Deputy Editor sit directly above a single board, and the board carries the review load with them.2021 年名单上没有副编辑层级。编辑与副编辑之下直接是一份编委名单，审稿工作由编委分担。

• Submissions go through the SAGE Journals site, where the submission guidelines, the OnlineFirst queue and the board listing sit under one journal home page.投稿经 SAGE Journals 站点提交，投稿指南、OnlineFirst 队列与编委名单都挂在同一个刊物主页之下。

• Special issue proposals are handled by the editors, and the two calls of late 2025 ask for work on sustainable cores and on biomimetic designs, both framed as collections rather than single papers.专刊提案由编辑处理，2025 年下半年两则征稿分别面向可持续芯材与仿生设计，都按合集而非单篇组织。

• Entries carry institution only, with no research-area line, so the board's expertise has to be read from its publications.条目只写单位，不附研究方向，编委的专长要从其发表记录里读出来。