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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Cruising and Composites

The Composite Materials Handbook (CMH17) Meeting was held at MIT in Cambridge, MA the week of August 20, 2012. The meeting, held every 8 months in rotating locations, provides an opportunity for members to review the guidelines and technical information to standardize requirements for composite materials.

We were happy to take part in the hosting "duties" and took the attendees on a narrated boat cruise of the Charles River and Boston Harbor. We sailed through the locks from the Charles River to Boston Harbor and underneath the Leonard Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge – landmarks of particular interest for their engineering ingenuity.

The cruise was attended by members from the US, UK, Canada, Korea, Austria, Israel, the Netherlands, Brazil, and France.

Did you take a cruise around the harbor? Leave a comment below!

Information about CMH17
The Composite Materials Handbook provides information and guidance necessary to design and fabricate end items from composite materials. Its primary purpose is the standardization of engineering data development methodologies related to testing, data reduction, and data reporting of property data for current and emerging composite materials. In support of this objective, the handbook includes composite materials properties that meet specific data requirements. The Handbook, therefore, constitutes an overview of the field of composites technology and engineering, an area which is advancing and changing rapidly. As a result, the document is constantly changing as sections are added or modified to reflect advances.

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