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Abstract / Paper Submission


Call for Papers for a 2014 Special Issue of Journal of the Japanese Society for Experimental Mechanics


Following the 1st ISEM 06-Sapporo (Japan), the 2nd ISEM 07-Osaka (Japan), the 3rd ISEM 08-Tainan (Taiwan), the 4th ISEM 09-Niigata (Japan), the 5th ISEM 10-Kyoto (Japan), the 6th ISEM 11-Kansai (Japan), the 7th ISEM 12-Taipei (Taiwan) jointed with ACEM and SEM, and the 8th ISEM 13-Sendai (Japan), papers selected from the Proceedings will be published in a dedicated Special Issue of Journal of the Japanese Society for Experimental Mechanics. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers in a specified format* to the Secretariat of ISEM through e-mail (address given below). Submissions will soon undergo the normal review process by two independent referees. Please remind that if accepted for publication in the Special Issue, all authors should pay for submission fee (35,000 yen* within 6 pages for JSEM members and 45,000 yen for JSEM non-members), which covers a copy of Special Issue volume and a pdf reprint. Kindly notice that color printing will be charged additionally if it is liked by the authors. *Note: 100 yen = 1.01 US$ (as of November 12, 2013)

Participants in the 6th ISEM 11-Kansai (Japan), and/or the 7th ISEM 12-Taipei (Taiwan) are also quailifed to submit their papers if they have not submitted to any other Journals.
* Find the attachment (two forms)

Click here to download a call-for-papers and a paper format:
Call_for_SI papers-8thISEM'13-F2.doc
Paper format-8th ISEM'13-F.doc

Please submit your papers to the Secretariat of ISEM through e-mail.
Secretariat of ISEM: isem8_2014@mech.ous.ac.jp

Key Dates
Full-length paper due: January 11, 2014
First notification: April 20, 2014
Final manuscript due: June 21, 2014
Publication: End of July , 2014

Further Information
Please feel free to contact the Secretariat of ISEM with any queries through the above e-mail.

Full-length Manuscript Submission


Authors are advised to submit a full-length manuscript by July 10, 2013 through the following form. Please submit the manuscript as a PDF file. The file size should not exceed 10 MByte.

(Full-length Manuscript submission form is now constructing. Coming soon!)
 Notification of full-length manuscript acceptance will be made on August 30, 2013.
Please download the template of the manuscript (which has been slightly modified).
This format was revised in Aug. 11. Some comments for the format of 'Nomenclature' were added.

Please download the template of the manuscript.
Click here to download a Format (WORD) for Proceedings Manuscript. (8thISEM-ProcPaperformat-R3.doc)
Please change the file name into the first author's full name and please put your receipt number at the top of the file name.
(e.g.) "012-Taro-SENDAI.pdf"

The submission of a new paper was already closed.
We are now accepting only "Revised-Full-Paper".

Abstract submission

Abstracts of 300-500 words in English should be submitted online at the Symposium website. The abstracts should contain the following:
  1. Title of paper.
  2. Five keywords to describe and categorize the work.
  3. Name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone number and fax number of the author to whom subsequent correspondence should be directed.
  4. Names and affiliations of co-authors, if any.
  5. Background, objective, method, main findings and results.
The abstracts will be used for preliminary screening and planning for the sessions. Accepted abstracts should be submitted in the form of full-length manuscripts for review. Final acceptance will be based on review of the manuscripts. A bound volume of the abstracts and a piece of CD-ROM proceedings of the full-length papers will be available at the Symposium. Authors are invited to submit their papers for publication of a volume of selected papers or a Special Issue of Journal of the Japanese Society for Experimental Mechanics named as "Jikken Rikigaku". These submitted papers will be subject to the normal review process of the Journal.
Please download the template of the abstract manuscript.

Click here to download a format for the abstract manuscript.
Please change the file name into the first author's full name. The file size should be less than 3 MBytes.
(e.g.) "Taro-SENDAI.doc"
Authors are advised to submit a ABSTRACT by May 10, 2013 May 24, 2013 through the following form.



The 8th International Symposium on Advanced Science and Technology in Experimental Mechanics (8th ISEM '13-Sendai)