SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Editor-in-Chief:

PROFESSOR SUONG V. HOA

Director, Concordia Center for Composites, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Concordia University, 1455 Demaisonneuve West # EV 4-145

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8

Tel: 514—848-2424, ext 3139; Fax: 514-848-3175

E-mail: hoasuon@alcor.concordia.ca

Editor for the Middle East

OMRI RAND

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Haifa 32000, Israel

Tel: (972-4) 829-3487 • Fax: (972-4) 823-1848

Editor for Asia:

M. ZAKO

Dept. of Welding and Production Engineering

Osaka University

Osaka, Japan

Editor for Europe:

R. PYRZ

Institute of Mechanical Engineering

Aalborg University

Denmark

EDITORIAL BOARD

P.W.R. BEAUMONT Dept. of Engineering University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1PZ, U.K. A. M. BRANDT Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland A.H. CARDON Faculty of Applied Sciences Free University of Brussels Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels Belgium M. DARLINGTON Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, MK42 0AL U.K. A.T. DI BENEDETTO Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269-3136, U.S.A.	L.T. DRZAL Michigan State University Dept. of Chemical Engineering, E. Lansing MI 48824 1326, U.S.A. G.W. EHRENSTEIN University of Erlangen- Nurnberg, Institute of Polymer Tech. and Composites D-8520 Erlangen- Tennenlohe, Germany R. FARRIS Univ. of Massachusetts Polymer Science and Engineering Amherst, MA 01003, U.S.A D. HUI University of New Orleans Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, New Orleans LA, 70148 USA	L.J. LEE Ohio State University Dept. of Chem. Engineering Columbus, OH 43210-1173 U.S.A. S. MURAKAMI Aichi Univ of Technology Dept of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nishihazama-cho, Gamagori-city, Aichi-prefecture 443-0047, Japan A. NAKAI Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto, Japan M. NARKIS Dept. of Chemical Engineering Technion-IIT Haifa 32000 Israel L. NICOLAIS Dept. of Materials and Production Engineering University of Naples Naples, Italy	S.A. PAIPETIS University of Patras Dept. of Mech. Engineering Applied Mechanics Lab P.O. Box 1134 Patras 26110, Greece S. RAMAKRISHNA Dept. of Mechanical and Production Engineering National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260 S. SEFERIS University of Washington Polymeric Composite Lab BF-10, Seattle, WA 98195 U.S.A. M.T. TON-THAT Industrial Materials Institute National Research Council of Canada Quebec, Canada J.L. WHITE University of Akron Polymer Engineering Center Akron, Ohio, U.S.A .
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