薄壁結構在工程建設中所占的比重越來越大，應用領域也越來越多樣化，從飛機、橋梁、船舶和石油鉆井平臺到儲存船、工業建筑和倉庫。許多因素，包括成本和重量經濟、新材料和工藝以及強大的分析方法的增長，都促成了這一增長，并導致需要一本專門關注由于壁薄而出現問題的結構的期刊。該領域包括冷彎型鋼、板殼結構、增強塑料結構和鋁結構，在許多工程領域具有重要意義。在薄壁結構中考慮紙張的主要標準是，它們必須與薄壁結構或薄壁結構固有的基本問題有關。如果滿足該標準，則不限制施工類型、材料或應用領域。發表了理論、實驗、設計等方面的論文，預計許多論文將包含這三方面的內容。

Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses.Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering.The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.