Providing top-quality, peer-reviewed research papers on contemporary issues of engineering materials and technology,the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology covers a broad spectrum of issues regarding properties of materials and how they apply to materials use in equipment and structures. Important recent topics include: principles of the micro-macro transition; elastic behavior; plastic behavior; high-temperature creep, fatigue, and fracture; as well as metals, polymers, ceramics, intermetallics, and their composites. Other areas of interest are: joining; mechanical behavior; environmental effects, machining; materials processing; constitutive relations; and microstructure property relationships.