Technical Working Areas
Technical Working Area (TWA)
Since the inception of VAMAS, 45 TWAs have been set up, covering a wide range of pre-standards research needs for the application of advanced materials. Over 500 individuals from many research groups including reseachers from outside the original founding countries have participated in over 80 individual projects.
Typically, international collaboration takes place to agree the technical basis for test method development and, using round robin intercomparisons, the test methods are checked to ensure that consistent results are obtainable at different laboratories, and provide precision (repeatability and reproducibility) data.
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) is organizing this effort as a core institution in Japan.
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Correlation between the Steering Committee, the TWAs, and the VAMAS Japan Domestic Committee