SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Editor-in-Chief:

SUONG V. HOA

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 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, U.K. A. M. BRANDT Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland M. DARLINGTON Cranfield Institute of Technology, Cranfield, Bedford, U.K. A.T. DI BENEDETTO Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. L.T. DRZAL Michigan State University Dept. of Chemical Engineering Michigan, U.S.A.	G.W. EHRENSTEIN University of Erlangen- Nurnberg, Institute of Polymer Tech. and Composites Erlangen-Tennenlohe, Germany R. FARRIS Univ. of Massachusetts Polymer Science and Engineering Amherst, MA, U.S.A D. HUI University of New Orleans Dept. of Mechanical Engineering New Orleans, LA, USA L.J. LEE Ohio State University Dept. of Chem. Engineering Columbus, OH, U.S.A.	S. MURAKAMI Aichi Univ of Technology Dept of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nishihazama-cho, Gamagori-city, Aichi-prefecture, Japan A. NAKAI Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto, Japan M. NARKIS Dept. of Chemical Engineering Technion-IIT Haifa, Israel L. NICOLAIS Dept. of Materials and Production Engineering University of Naples Naples, Italy	O. RAND Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel S. RAMAKRISHNA Dept. of Mechanical and Production Engineering National University of Singapore, Singapore J.C. SEFERIS GloCal Network Corporation Polymeric Composite Lab Seattle, WA, USA 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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