Advanced Composite Materials (journal)

Advanced Composite Materials is a quarterly peer review

Peer review

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ed - scientific journal

Scientific journal

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, which was established in 1991. It is published by VSP

Brill Publishers

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on behalf of the Japan Society for Composite Materials and the Korean Society for Composite Materials. The editors in chief

Editor in chief

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are H. Fukunaga (Sendai, Japan) and K.S. Han (Seoul, Korea

Seoul

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). The journal covers all scientific and technological aspects of composite material

Composite material

Composite materials, often shortened to composites or called composition materials, are engineered or naturally occurring materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate and distinct at the macroscopic or...

s and composite material structures, including physical

Physics

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, chemical

Chemistry

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, mechanical

Mechanics

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, and other properties of advanced composites as well as microscopic to macroscopic behavior studied both experiment

Experiment

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ally and theoretically

Theory

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. Novel fabrication techniques for composites and composite structural components are also included.

In addition to original research papers, the journal publishes technical papers, review paper

Review journal

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s, and research notes. As with other scientific journals, news accounts related to new materials and their processing are also included. Furthermore, some papers originally published in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

in the Journal of the Japan Society for Composite Materials are translated and published in this journal.

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According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

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, Advanced Composite Materials has an impact factor

Impact factor

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of 0.404. In 2006 Journal Citations Report for 2006 ranked Advanced Composite Materials with an Impact Factor of 0.265.

Societies

Advanced Composite Materials is a quarterly publication of the Japan Society for
Composite Materials and the Korean Society for Composite Materials.

Japan Society for Composite Materials

The Japan Society for Composite Materials was established in 1975. Its stated purpose is to develop and promote the science

Science

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and technology

Technology

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of composite material

Composite material

s. The members of the sociey not only work in areas which are considered conventional materials science

Materials science

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such as metallurgy

Metallurgy

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, polymer science

Polymer science

Polymer science or macromolecular science is the subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics...

and artificial materials. Member's expertise encompasses a wider range than this because composite materials integrates science from a variety of interwoven fields, and technologies. Hence, other areas of concern to the members of this society are interface science, process engineering

Process engineering

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, manufacturing engineering

Manufacturing engineering

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, mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering

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, aerospace engineering

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, marine engineering

Naval architecture

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, construction engineering

Construction engineering

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and civil engineering

Civil engineering

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.

Various activities are avenues to advance, as well as develop, promote, and provide education

Education

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for composite related basic research

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and technologies. The activities include information exchange

Communication

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regarding the most up to date results achieved through research and development

Research and development

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of composites. The exchange of information is also oriented toward providing solutions for problems encountered in this interdisciplinary field.

The Japan Society for Composite Materials is the sole academic society in Japan

Japan

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representing the researchers in this field. It fulfills this leading role by organizing and, with other organizations, it hosts various international meetings to promote international exchange regarding composite materials. Hence, another avenue to dissemnate relevant information for composite related basic research

Basic Research

and technologies.

External links

Materials science and engineering information gateways at IOM3 website.
NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science (National Institute for Standards and Technology; USA)
Center for Computational Materials Science. (Materials Science and Technology division for Naval Research Laboratory; USA)

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Abstracting and indexing

Societies

Japan Society for Composite Materials

See also

External links