Data Availability

The International Journal of Mechanical Design and Materials Science encourages authors to promote transparency and reproducibility by making research data and supporting materials available where appropriate.

• Authors are encouraged to share data and supporting materials underlying their research findings whenever possible.
• Data should be deposited in a recognized repository where appropriate.
• Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript.
• If data cannot be shared due to privacy, confidentiality, ethical, or legal restrictions, the statement should clearly explain the reason.
• Authors should provide relevant datasets, code, models, or supplementary materials where necessary to support the published findings.
• Authors remain responsible for ensuring that shared data comply with applicable ethical, legal, privacy, and copyright requirements.