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Guide picks
Locate universities which have laboratories dedicated to composite materials research, and see in what areas of research those labs are active.

Berkeley Composites Laboratory (BCL)
University of California interdisciplinary research lab. Faculty and student directory, facilities and equipment list, research abstracts, publications list, and course offerings.

Centre for Advanced Materials Technology (CAMT)
Interdisciplinary materials research group at the University of Sydney, Australia. Site lists people, lab facilities, research projects, grants and contracts, and classes.

CSU: Composite Matls, Manufacture, & Structures Lab
Colorado State Univ. Focuses on optimized manufacture of PMCs and new material development. List of services and equipment, research abstracts and figures, publications.

IAT: Analysis of Structures & Lightweight Construction
Areas of interest: stress, strain, optimization, and fatigue analysis of lightweight structures. Some online research reports. Many of the secondary pages in German only. Bremen, Germany.

IKB: Composites and Structures
Active in testing, evaluation, process technologies, design, and optimization. Site describes projects in detail. Lists of facilities, faculty, students, publications. Zurich, Switzerland.

KAIST: Composite Materials Laboratory
Fabrication (MMC, PMC, nano-composites), bulk and thin film materials, and biomaterials. Research overviews, faculty and student resumes, some abstracts.

KUL: Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation
Division PMA of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is involved in a diverse range of research activities. Design of lightweight structures focuses on filament wound and pultruded composites, plus deep drawn textile composites.

LMT-Cachan
Applied mechanics lab with an emphasis on numerical simulation and structural computations. Site gives abstracts of research and list of faculty. France.

LS1: Chair Informatik 1
This looks like a computer science department at the Universität Dortmund, but the Web site mainly focuses on research topics. The group is active in Design of Composite Materials.

Michigan Tech: Institute of Matls Processing (IMP)
Materials lab at Michigan Tech that specializes in industrial applications. Government-sponsored research, proprietary R&D, and technology transfer.

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