Materials Science and Engineering: A — Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is the section of Materials Science and Engineering dedicated to "theoretical and experimental studies related to the load-bearing capacity of materials as influenced by their basic properties, processing history, microstructure and operating environment" and is published monthly by Elsevier. The current editor-in-chiefs are H. W. Hahn (University of Oklahoma), E. J. Lavernia (University of California Irvine), and B. B. Wei (Northwestern Polytechnical University).