THE VERSAILLES PROJECT ON ADVANCED MATERIALS & STANDARDS
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The VAMAS technical committees, called Technical Working Areas (TWAs), are at the center of all VAMAS activities. This is where the work is done. Typically, international collaboration takes place to provide an agreed-upon technical basis for test method development and, using round robin intercomparisons, the test methods are checked to ensure that consistent results are obtainable at different laboratories. Since the inception of VAMAS, 32 TWAs have been set up, covering a wide range of pre-standards research needs for the application of advanced materials. Some TWAs have completed their work and are no longer active. Currently there are 15 active TWAs, the most recent being TWA 32 on Modulus Measurements.


Over 500 individuals from many research groups including reseachers from outside the original founding countries have participated in over 80 individual projects. Lists of all active projects and finished projects are available. Many adopted standards on advanced materials and others in various stages of development have benefited from collaboration through VAMAS. Many of the TWA projects have led to the modification or introduction of new national, regional, and international standards for advanced materials.  Copies of the latest TWA Reports can be found at TWA Reports.


Requests to establish a new TWA or a new project within a new or existing TWA should be submitted to the VAMAS Secretary and accompanied by a completed Activities Initiation Form. This form must contain sufficiently detailed information to justify the request. A copy of the Activities Initiation Form is available from the VAMAS Secretary, stephen.freiman@nist.gov.

Current TWAs

Number Title
TWA 2 Surface Chemical Analysis
TWA 3 Ceramics for Structural Applications
TWA 5 Polymer Composites
TWA 16 Superconducting Materials
TWA 17 Cryogenic Stuctural Materials
TWA 20 Measurement of Residual Stress
TWA 22 Mechanical Measurements of Thin Films and Coatings
TWA 24 Performance Related Properties for Electroceramics
TWA 26 Full Field Optical Stress and Strain Measurements
TWA 28 Spectrometry of Synthetic Polymers
TWA 29 Nanomechanics Applied to SPM
TWA 30 Tissue Engineering
TWA 31 Crack Growth in Weldments Under Stress
TWA 32 Modulus Measurements
TWA 33 Polymer Nanocomposites

VAMAS Technical Working Area Chairmen

Technical Working Area 2
Surface Chemical Analysis
Dr. Cedric Powell
Mail Stop 8370
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD USA 20899
Tel: +1 301 975 2534
Fax: +1 301 216 1134
E -Mail: cedric.powell@nist.gov

Technical Working Area 3
Ceramics for Structural Applications
Dr. Kristin Breder
Saint-Gobain Abrasives
1 New Bond St.
Box 15008, MS 413-201
Worcester, MA, USA 01605-0008
Tel: +1 508 795 4147
Fax: +1 508 795 4283
E -Mail: kristin.breder@saint-gobain.com


Technical Working Area 5
Polymer Composites
Dr. Graham D. Sims
Division of Engineering and Process Control,
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, Middlesex
TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 8943 6564
Fax: +44 20 8614 0433
E -Mail: graham.sims@npl.co.uk


Technical Working Area 16
Superconducting Materials
Dr Hitoshi Wada
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo,
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha,
Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561,
Japan
Tel & Fax:+81-4-7136-3781
E -Mail: wada.hitoshi@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp


Technical Working Area 17
Cryogenic Structural Materials
Dr. Toshio Ogata
NIMS, Tsukuba Laboratories
1-2-1, Sengen, Tsukuba-shi
Ibaraki 3050047, Japan
Tel: +81 298 59 2541
Fax: +81 298 59 2501
E -Mail: ogata.toshio@nims.go.jp


Technical Working Area 20
Measurement of Residual Stress
Dr Mark Daymond
Natural Sciences and Engineering
Queen's University
99 University Avenue
Kingston, Ontario
Canada
K7L 3N6
Tel:+1 (613) 533-2193
E -Mail: daymond@me.queensu.ca


Technical Working Area 22
Mechanical Property Measurements of Thin Films and Coatings
Dr. Nigel Jennett
Engineering and Process Control Div.
NPL
Teddington, Middlesex
TW11OLW, UK
Tel +44 20 8943 6641
Fax +44 20 8614 0451
E -Mail: nigel.jennett@npl.co.uk


Technical Working Area 24
Performance Related Properties for Electroceramics
Dr. Markys Cain
Division of Engineering and Process Control
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, Middlesex
TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 8943 6599
Fax: +44 20 8943 2989
E -Mail: markys.cain@npl.co.uk

Technical Working Area 26
Full Field Optical Stress and Strain Measurement
Dr. Richard Burguete
Airbus UK Ltd.
New Filton House
Filton
Bristol, BS99 7AR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)117 936 4299
Fax: +44 (0)117 936 5903
E -Mail: richard.burguete@baesystems.com


Technical Working Area 28
Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
of Synthetic Polymers
Dr. Charles Guttman
Mail Stop 8541
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD, USA 20899
Tel: +1 301 975 6729
Fax: +1 301 975 3928
E -Mail: charles.guttman@nist.gov


Technical Working Area 29
Nanomechanics
Co-chairmen: Dr Richard Gates
Room B-103, Building 217
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
USA
Tel. +1 301 975 3677
Fax +1 301 975 5995
E -Mail: richard.gates@nist.gov


Dr David Mendels
Division of Engineering and Process Control
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, Middlesex
TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 8943 6206
Fax: +44 20
E -Mail: david.mendels@npl.co.uk


Technical Working Area 30
Tissue Engineering
Professor Kazuo Takakuda
Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Address. 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0062 Japan
tel. +81-3-5280-8040
fax. +81-3-5280-8005
E -Mail: takakuda.mech@tmd.ac.jp


Technical Working Area 31
Crack Growth in Weldments under Stress
Dr. Kamran Nikbin
Imperial College of Science,
Technology & Medicine
Exhibition Road, London
SW7 2BX, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7594 7133
Fax: +44 20 7823 8845
E -Mail: k.nikbin@ic.ac.uk


Technical Working Area 32
Modulus Measurements
Dr. Jerry Lord
Division of Engineering and Process Control
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, Middlesex
TW11 0LW, United Kingdom
E -Mail: jerry.lord@npl.co.uk


Technical Working Area 33
Polymer Nanocomposites
Dr Leszek Utracki
National Research Council Canada
Industrial Materials Institute
75 de Mortagne, Boucherville, QC, Canada J4B 6Y4
Tel: +1 (450) 641-5182, Fax -5105
 E-mail: leszek.utracki@imi.cnrc-nrc.gc.ca

NRC, Industrial Materials Institute

 

 

 
     
     
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