Appendix D
Organizations Interested in Damage in Composite Materials
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
The Adhesion Society
Advanced Composite Materials (ACM) (http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-AdvComMat.html)
Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites Consortium (ALMMCC) (http://www.almmc.com)
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) (http://www.ceramics.org)
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) (http://www.cfa-hq.org)
American Concrete Institute (ACI) (http://composite.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aci-int.org%2F)
American Helicopter Society International (AHS)—The Vertical Flight Society (http://www.vtol.org)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (http://www.aaia.org)
American Kenaf Society (AKS) (http://kenafsociety.org)
American Society for Composites (ASC) (http://roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~asc/)
The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) (http://www.asnt.org)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) (http://www.astm.org)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (http://www.asce.org)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (http://www.asme.org)
American Technion Society (ATS) (http://www.ats.org)
ASM International (ASM) (http://www.asminternational.org)
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) (http://www.nam.org)
North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) (http://www.natasinfo.org)
Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) (http://www.sem.org/TDIV-Composites.asp)
Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) (http://www.sampe.com)
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) (http://www.sae.org/servlets/index)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) (http://www.sme.org)
Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) (http://www.4spe.org)
DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Advanced Composite Materials (ACM) (http://www.vsppub.com/journals/jn-AdvComMat.html)
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) (http://www.ceramics.org)
American Society for Composites (ASC) (http://roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~asc/)
The American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) (http://www.asnt.org)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) (http://www.astm.org)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (http://www.asce.org)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (http://www.asme.org)
POLYMERIC MATERIALS
American Chemical Society (ACS) (http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/home.html)
American Fiber Manufacturers Association and the Fiber Economics Bureau (http://www.fibersource.com/)
American Mold Builders Association (AMBA) (http://www.amba.org)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) (http://www.ansi.org/)
American Plastics Council (APC) (http://www.plastics.org/s_plastics/index.asp)
American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) (http://www.asms.org)
American Society for Plasticulture (ASP) (http://www.plasticulture.org/)
American Society for Quality (ASQ) (http://www.asq.org)
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) (http://www.astm.org)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (http://www.asme.org)
ASM International (ASM) (http://www.asminternational.org)
Association of Rotational Molders (ARM) (http://www.rotomolding.org/)
Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) (http://www.aiag.org)
Automotive Recyclers Association (http://www.autorecyc.org/)
Film and Bag Federation (FBF) (http://www.plasticbag.com/)
Flexible Packaging Association (http://www.flexpack.org/)
Future Scientists and Engineers of America (FSEA) (http://www.fsea.org/)
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) (http://idsa.org)
International Association of Plastics Distributors (IAPD) (http://www.iapd.org/)
I.T. Quarnstrom Foundation (http://www.itqfoundation.org/)
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) (http://www.nam.org)
Polymer Processing Society (PPS) (http://www.poly-eng.uakron.edu/pps/)
Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) (http://www.4spe.org)
The Society of Rheology (SOR) (http://www.rheology.org/sor/)
The Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) (http://www.svc.org)
World Wide Web Resources for Composite Materials, by Serge Abrate, is a very useful summary. Available at <http://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/me426/liu/WEBSITES/webresource.pdf>. Accessed February 2005.