Measurements (e.g. experiments, testing, monitoring, and inspection) serve as a sound benchmark for theorem, application and innovation in geomechanics, as well as for the safe and efficient construction of geotechnical engineering. This is the major foundation for this new journal with a focus on the field of measurements.

Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (JRMGE), launched in 2009, has become a top-ranked journal in the JCR category of Web of Science (WOS) journals (JIF ranking: 1/65). Considering the companion journal of JRMGE, we decided to launch a new journal, Journal of Geomechanics and Measurements (JGM). JGM aims to become a leading peer-reviewed platform and an authoritative source of information for fundamental developments, reviews and practical applications related to the interdisciplinary field of geomechanics and measurements.

1. Aims and Scope

JGM aims to promote scientific research in geomechanics with a focus on measurements for rock, soil, concrete, geotextiles, and other geological materials, encompassing theories, methods, technologies, equipment, procedures, and applications. It covers laboratory tests, field detection, geological investigation, engineering monitoring, and geophysical prospecting, emphasizing on the subsequent processes of data analysis, result interpretation, and performance evaluation, using mathematical statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

2. Submissions

The journal focuses on the interdisciplinary field of geomechanics and measurements. The following scopes are but not limited to:

• Experiments: Indoor and outdoor physicomechanical property tests, as well as physical simulation experiments, on geotechnical materials such as rock, soil, and concrete. It includes relevant experimental theories, methods, technologies, equipment, procedures, and applications, along with data analysis, result interpretation, and performance evaluation based on experimental data.
• Monitoring: Engineering monitoring for all projects involving geomechanics, such as water conservancy and hydropower engineering, transportation engineering, oil and gas engineering, mining engineering, municipal engineering, and energy storage engineering, as well as engineering evaluation based on monitoring data.
• Measurements: Engineering measurements involving geomechanics, such as geodetic surveying, remote sensing measurement, photogrammetry, inertial measurement, acoustic emission, laser measurement, and magnetic measurement; as well as engineering evaluation based on measurement data.
• Inspection: Research and inspection of new geotechnical materials, including rock bolts, anchor cables, grouting slurries, sealants, buffer layers, geotextiles, and modifiers.
• Testing Instruments and New Technologies: Testing instruments and new technologies related to geomechanics, such as true/ordinary triaxial test equipment, complex stress path test equipment, complex shear test equipment, multi-field coupling test equipment, large-scale physical simulation test equipment, and in situ test equipment.
• New Analytical Methods for Test Data: Data analysis, result interpretation, and performance evaluation using new analytical methods, such as mathematical statistics, big data, deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, based on test data.