The Society for Experimental Mechanics is fortunate to receive the support of major industries, universities and government agencies throughout the world who participate in its Corporate Membership program. SEM Corporate Members realize the importance of having employees supplied with current experimental-mechanics data. Through their financial support they also assure that a forum for the exchange of vital technological information continues, as it has in SEM for the past 43 years. Each year, through an awards pro$ram, SEM formally recognizes outstanding individual achievement, The' Society wishes to take this opportunity to recognize and thank the following firms and organizations which support its activities through Corporate Membership and involvement. The November issue featured SEM's Sustaining and Educational/Nonprofit members. In this issue we wish to recognize our Commercial and Individual Corporate members.

COMMERCIAL MEMBERS A large degree of these firms' operations is dedicated to supporting the communication of experimental-mech. alllcb I~!r:hnolog~.

Aluminum Company of America l'lit:

/-\luniinum Company of America,

b\I,t;(h\), founded in 1888 in Pittsburgh, is the world's leading producer of

aluniinum products. The primary markets for the Company's products are packaging and containers, transportation, energy and electrical applications, and 1,uilding and construction. ALCOA i.aboratoiies, with locations i n Upper Burrell and New Kensington, PA, is the largest light metals research ,and cleveloprrient facility in the free world. ALCOA Laboratories' employees are involved in ;I number of lundamental, exploratory, and applied K L L I programs h materials, and materials processing areas, and provide technical support to Alcoa's manufacturing operations and marketing divisions.

Allison Gas Turbine Division-GMC The Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors Corporation, headquartered in Indianapolis, is a leading producer of turbine engines ranging in size from 300 to 8000 horsepower for commercial, military and industrial needs worldwide. More than 1000 professionals make up the technical team which represents a wide range of disciplines applied to all aspects of product research, design, development, application and support.

Avco Lycoming TEX'k'RON Avco Lycoming 'I'extron, Stratlord Division, is one ot the leading gas-turbine engine manufacturers in the world. The company offers a wide range of military and coinmercial engines used for powering helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, tanks and naval vessels, and a number of marinelindustrial applications. Located i n Stratford, Cl', the Division's sales and services reiicll a worldwide market backed up by a biuad network of service centers to enhance product support.

Babcock dir W i l c o x AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, conducts research and develop ment in microelectronics, software sysys. terns, digital systems, and photonicsall basic technologies of the 'Information Age'. A I & T Bell Laboratories works closely with its parent company, AT&T, to produce a number of innovations, such as new lightwave transmission systems, digital and analog microwave radio systems, mobile radio systeins, and packet switching networks.

Babcock & Wilcox, a McDermott company, is a leading manufacturer of specialty engineered industrial products an? materials for use in three major fields: energy systems, engineered materials and process control. 'l'he company also supplies fossil-fuel steamgenerating systems and associated equipment, services for both fossil and nuclear-fueled plants, anci specialty steel tubing. Babcock L Wilcox maintains more than 30 operating facilities worldwide as well as a Research and Development Division headquartered in Miance, OH.

BLH Electronics BLH Electronics, with headquarters in Waltham, MA, is a leader in straingage technology, produces force transducers, microprocessors, and equip ment for the process-control industry. A list of particular products includes strain gages and accessories, standard and custom designed; strain-gage transducers for weight and force measurement to 1.5 million pounds; and instruments and systems for complete turnkey applications in process control.

The Boeing Company The Boeing Company is a leading producer of advanced technology aero. space products including commuter and commercial jet transports, helicopters, avionics, military information systems, missile systems, space systems, electronic products, and computer services. Boeing, with headquarters in Seattle, WA also has major production facilities in Washington, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Canada.

Center for Composite Materials, University ot Delaware The Center for Composite Materials, located in the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering, is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to advance the state-of-the-artof polymeric, metallic and ceramic composite materials. It has three broad objectives: to conduct basic research in composite materials; to provide avenues for technology transfer between university, government and industrial research groups; and to train students for work in the composites field.

Chrysler Corporation Chrysler Motors, one of four operating units of Chrysler Corporation, builds and sells a full line of world-class cars and trucks and leads the automotive world in the production of turbocharged cars. Chrysler Motors is the core of Chrysler Corporation’s business, which also includes Chrysler Financial Corporation, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, and Chrysler Technologies. The diversification program establishing four operations units in 1985 is designed

to maintain aggressive corporate growth and continue a program providing products and services sought by consumers in the tradition of the minivans, a market Chrysler created two years ago. Chrysler is based in Highland Park, Michigan.

force, load and pressure. The section is comprised of the Strain Gage and Transducer Unit near Marina Del Ray, CA and the Lebow Products Operation in Troy, MI.

Corning Glass Work6

EG&G Idaho, Inc., is a prime operating contractor for the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering

Corning and its subsidiary companies comprise a worldwide, high4echnology organization with 48 plants and 54 offices. Corning competes in four broad business sectors: specialty glass and ceramics (the company’s historical base), consumer housewares, laboratory sciences, and telecommunications.Binding these four sectors is the ‘glue’ of technology-Corning’s research labora. tory, established in 1908. Some 1,500 scientists, engineers and support personnel are now employed at the cornpany’s research and development centers in the United States, Japan and France.

Deem & Company Deere & Company manufactures productivity and quality products for farming, construction and lawn care. Particular products include tractors, combines and lawn mowers. Deere & Company maintains corporate offices in Moline, IL and has 11 manufacturing plants at various locations in the U.S., mainly in the Midwest, as well as regional offices and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

Ealing Electro-Optics, Inc. Ealing Electro-Optics, located in South Natick, MA, has been in the optics field over 130 years. The company produces more than 4000 standard items of optical, mechanical and electronic products. Using state-of-the-art equipment, they supply reliable products and have the expertise to make customized equipment in production quantities to special order.

Baton Corporation Eaton Corporation manufactures advanced.technolw products for industry in two categories: vehicle components, and electrical and electronic systems and components. The Physical Measurements Section of Eaton’s Automation Products Division offers products designed to measure and monitor strain,

EG&G Idaho, Inc.

Laboratory near Idaho Falls, ID. It provides a variety of programmatic and support services related to nuclear reactor design and development, nonnuclear energy development, materials testing and evaluation, operational safety and radioactive waste management. EG&G is a wholly owned subsidiary of EG&G, Inc., a diversified, technology. oriented corporation headquartered in Wellesley, MA.

Exxon Research dk Engineering Co. A wholly owned subsidiary of Exxon Corporation, Exxon Research and En. gineering Co. ( E R t E ) has its principal research center at Clinton Township, NJ. Here, scientists from many disciplines pursue the development of improved products and processes, advanced en. vironmental and energy technology, and fundamental resear&. The engineer. ing divisions of E R k E at Florham Park, NJ help to convert research findings into commercial realty, d u c t enginaer. ing research and development, and provide design project management, and consulting services to k m affiliates throughotit the world.

General DynamiC6 Corporation General Dynamics Corporation, headquartered in St. Louis, is a leading American defense contractor, producing such military equipment as fighter aircraft, nuclear submarines, missile systems and battle tanks. It is also a commercial company, whose manufacturing products include general aviation aircraft, space-launch vehicles and computer-output equipment. General Dynamics concentrates on five major fields: aerospace and electronics technology, military land systems, ship building, information systems, and natural resources and construction materials.

General Electric Company General Electric Company is the world's largest supplier of electrical goods and services whose corporate headquarters are located in Fairfield, CT. G.E. manufactures products at 217 plants in 33 states in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and at 116 plants in 24 countries outside the U.S. The company is divided into sectors which provide power systems, industrial products, natural resources, services and materials, technical systems and consumer products.

Grumman Corporation Grumman Corporation designs and produces U.S. military aircraft, aircraft components, space-related systems and services, electronic systems; refurbishes aircraft; and provides technical support and subcontracting services. Grumman's current aircraft production includes the F-14 Tomcat, A-6E Intruder, EA-6B Prowler, E-2C Hawkeye, C.2 Greyhound and EF-111 tactical-jamming aircraft. Grumman's headquarters are located in Bethpage, NY.

Instron Corporation Instron Corporation, headquartered in Canton, MA, produces a full line of materials-testing instrumentation ranging fmm tensile testers for quality assurance to computer-controlled, multiaxial test systems capable of accurately simulating the i n u e environment of the most complex materials and structures. In addition, the company produces custom systems to meet specific needs.

IBM Corporation IBM's operations are primarily in the field of information-handling systems, equipment and services to solve the increasingly complex problems of business, government, science, space exploration, defense, &cation, medicine and many other areas of human activity. IBM's products include information. processing products and systems, program products, telecommunications system, office system, typewritenr,copienr, educational and testing materials, and related supplies and services. Most products are both leased and sold through IBMs worldwide marketing organization.

Kelsey-Hayee Automotive Group

motion, kinematics and fluidlwind-flow dynamics.

The Kelsey-Hayes Automotive Group, located in Romulus, MI, manufactures products for automotive, agricultural and industrial applications. Products include wheels, disk brakes, drum brakes, front-hub assemblies, electromechanical sensors, automotive-engine blocks and other engine components, iron castings, and precision aluminum die castings. The Group operates manufacturing facilities which conduct fabricating, casting and machining operations throughout North America.

M T 8 8yStem8 Corporation

Kobe Steel, Ltd. Kobe Steel, Ltd., one of the worlds top 20 iron and steel producers, is also one of Japan's most diversified corporations. With its wide range of nonferrous metals and industrial and construction machinery as well as its expertise in plant engineering and technical assistance, the company contributes to key industries throughout the world. Established in 1905, Kobe Steel's major offices are located in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan.

Kyowa Electronic Instruments Co., Inc. Kyowa Electronic Instruments Co., Inc. offers such products as strain gages, strain-gagwbased transducers, strain amplifiers, signal conditioners, instrumentation-data recorders, oscillographs, data loggers and dataacquisition and processing systems. Headquartered in Chofu City, Tokyo, Japan, the company maintains a foreign sales network which Kyowa hopes will contribute to the worldwide develop ment of science and technology.

Motion Analysis Corporation Motion Analysis Corporation is headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, with sales offices across the nation. Motion Analysis has merged computer and video technologies to produce the ExpertVision system, a microcomputer-based system that analyzes a broad range of movements in applications rangiq from automotive and aerospace to quality control and physical test labs. The nonintrusive system is used effectively for studies in vibrational analysis, relative

MTS Systems Corporation produces automated and non-automated systems for environmental simulation and testi% of materials, vehicles, and structures. These range from tensile testers to wave makers and seismic-motion simulators, as well as shock and vibration test systems and crash simulators. MTS also produces products for manufacturing automation and production such as motion control, laser welding and SMC presses. Other divisions of the company, headquartered in Minneapolis, produce transducers for measuring level and tlow, and an automated wireharness manufacturing system.

Ometron, Inc. Ometron, Inc. provides sales arid services of the SPATE 8000 noncontact stress-analysis system in the U.S., Canada, and England. The unique SPATE 8000 is mainly used in the automotive and aerospace industries, as well as by universities, national engineering laboratories, agricultural equipment manufacturers, civil engineering research centers, power generation companies, railroad laboratories and marine research establishments. The system has won several awards for technical excellence and marketing achievements worldwide.

Optim Electronic Corporation Optim Electronics designs and manufactures the MEGADAC series of integrated data-acquisition systems for highspeed and low-speed measurement applications. Optim also produces the OPUS Data Acquisition, Reduction and Analysis Software for each series of equipment. Optim's facilities are located in Germantown, MD.

Optron Corporation Optron Corporation, located in Woodbridge, CT is a manufacturer of electrooptical measurement systems. As the originator of commercially available electro-optical systems, Optron has been a leader in noncontacting displacement sensing for more than 25 years. Op

tron’s product lines include the Model 300A digital camera and the Optron Series 5000 which utilizes a special photomultiplier tube and state-of-the-art servoelectronics.

Pacific Instruments, Inc. Pacific Instruments, Inc., manufactures strain-gage/transducer signalconditioning amplifiers, systems, and transient data recorders for aerospace and industrial applications. Located in Concord, CA, the company provides staff engineers for application assistance and publishes regular application notes on various signal-conditioning subjects.

PCB Piezotronics, Inc. PCB is a U.S. owned, independent manufacturer of quartz dynamic- nieasurement instrumentation located in DePew, NY. PCB manufactures a complete line of quartz pressure, force, shock and vibration sensors with or without built-in electronics, as well as the Susquehanna line of tourmaline shock and blast wave sensors and associated signal conditioning equipment such as power supplies, charge amplifiers, *tal peak meters and vibration monitor meters. The company also specializes in custom-built transducers and electronics designed to customer specifications. A laser welder and seven precision computer-assisted lathes expedite production of PCB products assembled and tested under an appiaved quality mritrol program based on MIL standards.

PSE&G Research Corporation ‘The Research and Testing Laboratory of the PSEBtG Research Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Public Service Electric & Gas Company, provides a broad range of quality-control and technological-testing engineering services. Services are offered in the following areas: metrology, vibration analysis and dynamic balancing, sound-level surveys, strain-gaging and structural analysis, corrosion mitigation and protective coatings, environmental-radiologicalanalysis, chemical analysis, metallurgy, nondestructive testing, materials inspection, plant-energy audits and plant emissions, and eftluent analysis.

Rockwell International Corporation Rockwell International Corporation is a major multi-industry company applying advanced technology to a wide range of products including aircraft, space vehicles, propulsion systems, and products and components for the utilities and oil, gas and nuclear industries, as well as a wide range of electronic and automotive products. Rockwell’s corporate offices are located in Pittsburgh, PA and El Segundo, CA.

Specialty Measurements, Inc. Specialty Measurements, Inc., located in Pittstown, NJ, is a professional engineering firm offering expertise in general experimental stress analysis. The firm’s emphasis is on field-test support, often conducted under adverse conditions. Custom load-cell design, residual-stress measurements, specialized data-acquisition systems and experimental testing are among the services provided to a wide range of clients in the United States and abroad.

Stress Engineering Services, Ltd. Stress Engineering Services offers a full range of applied stress analysis on a worldwide basis. ‘This includes onsite and inhouse strain-gage installations, 2D and 3D photoelasticity, photoelastic coatings, brittle coatings, etc. ‘The Conipany, located in Bath, England, also designs and manufactures a range of microprocessor-based stress and fatigue instrumentation. This work is carried out to the NATO quality standard AQAPI.

Teledyne Engineering Services Teledyne Engineering Services (TESL with headquarters in Waltham, MA, is a consulting firm which provides a wide range of engineering, management and technical-support services in such fields as material testing, metallography, nondestructive examination and experimental stress analysis. Specialized tests performed nn servohydraulic machines,

involving programmed cyclic loads and test temperatures from -4250C to 1200 O F can be tailored for individual client needs. Product lines include torque sensors and custom load transducers.

Wartsila Research Services Wartsila Research Services is a department within the Wartsila Group, one of the largest industrial companies in Finland. Located in Helsinki, the research company’s special fields include stress and strain measurements and calculations; design and manufacture of measurement systems and transducers to meet the client’s special needs; technical physics and mathematics; and electronics, nieasurements and control techniques.

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Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc. Ridgefield, NJ Louviers Technical Library 16.1. du Pont de Nemours and Company Wilmington, DE Robert Taylor Weir-Jones Engineering Consultants, Ltd. Vancouver, BC, Canada Felix Zandman Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. Malvern, PA