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Last update March 15, 1996

Non-Government Standards Organizations Directory

ABBREV	NAME				ADDRESS				CITY, STATE		ZIP	TELEPHONE
AA	The Aluminum Association Inc.	900 19th Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20006	(202) 862-5100
AAAS	American Association for the    1333 H Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20005	(202) 326-6400
	 Advancement of Science
AAES	American Association of         345 E. 47th Street		New York, NY		10017	(212) 705-7840
	 Engineering Societies, Inc.
AASHTO	American Association of State   444 N. Capital St NW		Washington, DC		20001	(202) 368-9100
	 Highway & Transportation
	 Officials
ABEBDE	The Associacao Brasileira       Brazilian NDT Society           Sao Paulo
	 de Ensaior Nao Destrutivos
ABS	American Bureau of Shipping     45 Eisenhower Drive		Paramus, NJ		07653	(201) 368-9100
	                                 P.O. Box 910
ACI	American Concrete Institute     P.O. Box 19150			Detroit, MI		48219	(313) 532-2600
ACS	American Chemical Society       1155 16th Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20036	(800) 424-6747
ACerS	American Ceramic Society        757 Brooksedge Plaza Drive	Westerville, OH		43081	(614) 890-4700
	                                 P.O. Box 6136
AEC	US Atomic Energy Commission     Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Oak Ridge, TN		37830
			                 P.O. Box 62
AECMA	Association Europeene Des, Constructeurs De Materiel Aerospatial
AEG	Acoustic Emission Group	        308 Westwood Blvd., Box 364	Los Angeles, CA		90024	(213) 825-5233
AEWG	Acoustic Emission Working Group
AFBMA	Anti-Friction Bearing           1101 Connecticut Ave, NW	Washington, DC		20036	(202) 429-5155
	Manufacturers Association       Suite 700
AFS	American Foundrymen's Society   Golf & Wolf Roads		Des Plaines, IL		60016	(312) 824-0181
		                         505 State Street
AGA	American Gas Association        1515 Wilson Boulevard		Arlington, VA		22209	(703) 841-8558
AGMA	American Gear Manufacturers     1500 King St.	Suite 201	Alexandria, VA		22314	(703) 684-0211
	 Association
AIA	Aerospace Industries Assoc.     1250 Eye Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20005	(202) 371-8400
	 of America, Inc.
AIAA	American Inst. of Aeronautics   370 L'Enfant Promenade S.W.	Washington, DC		20024	(202) 646-7400
	 and Astronautics
AIME	American Institute of Mining,   345 E. 47th Street		New York, NY		10017	(212) 705-7695
 	 Metallurgy & Petroleum Eng.
AIP	American Institute of Physics   500 Sunnyside Blvd.		Woodbury, NY 		11797
AIR	Aerospace Information Report, from SAE
AISC	American Institute of Steel     Wrigley Building,		Chicago, IL		60611	(312) 670-2400
	 Construction, Inc.	         400 N. Michigan Ave.
AISI	American Iron and Steel Inst.   1133 15th St., N.W., Suite 300	Washington, DC		20005	(202) 452-7100
AMAC	Association for Composite Materials (French)
ANMC	Amer. National Metric Council   5410 Grosvenor Lane		Bethesda, MD		20814	(301) 530-8333
ANS	American Nuclear Society        555 N. Kensington Ave.		LaGrange Park,IL	60525	(312) 352-6611
ANSI	American National Stand. Inst.  11 West 42nd Street		New York, NY		10036	(212) 642-4900
API	American Petroleum Institute    1220 L Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20005	(202) 682-8000
AREA	American Railway Engineering    50 F Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20001	(202) 639-2190
	 Association
ASA	Acoustical Society of America   335 E. 45th Street		New York, NY		10017	(212) 661-9404
ASCET	American Society of Certified   P.O. Box 1348			Flowery Branch, GA	30542	(770) 976-9173
	Engineering Technicians         3340 Old Spanish Trail						fax 770-967-8048
ASEE	American Society for            Suite 200,11 Dupont Circle	Washington, DC		20036	(202) 293-7080
	Engineering Education,
ASM	ASM International (formerly American Society of Metals)		Metals Park, OH		44073	(800) 368-9800
ASME	The American Society of        22 Law Drive, Box 2300		Fairfield, NJ		07007	(800) THE-ASME
	Mechanical Engineers
ASNT	The American Society for        1711 Arlingate Lane		Columbus, OH		43228	(800) 222-ASNT
	 Nondestructive Testing, Inc.   P.O. Box 28518
ASQC	American Society for 	        230 W. Wells Street,Suite 7000	Milwaukee, WI		53203	(414) 272-8575
	 Quality Control
ASSE	American Society of Safety Eng. 850 Busse Highway		Park Ridge, IL		60068	(312) 692-4121
ASTI	American Society for Technology 6600 S. Yale Avenue		Tulsa, OK		74136	(918) 496-5661
	 and Inspection
ASTM	Amer. Society for Testing       100 Barr Harbor Drive		West Conshohocken, PA	19428	(610) 832-9500  service@local.astm.org
	and Materials
ATA	Air Transport Association       1907 New York Avenue, N.W.	Washington, DC		20006	(202) 626-4000
AWS	American Welding Society, Inc.  550 N.W. LeJeune Rd		Miami, FL		33135	(800) 443-9353
		                         P.O. Box 351040
AWWA	American Water Works Assoc.     6666 W. Quincy Ave.		Denver, CO		80235	(303) 794-7711
BINDT	British Institute of NDT        1 Spencer Parade		Northhampton 		NN1 5AA	0604 30124
									United Kingdom
BSI	British Standards Institution   2 Park Street			London W1A 2BS			44 71 629 9000
									United Kingdom
CAGI	Compressed Air and Gas Inst.    1300 Sumner Avenue		Cleveland, OH		44115	(216) 241-7333
CARP	Committee on Acoustic Emission from Reinforced Plastics
CDA	Copper Development Association  405 Lexington Ave.		New York, NY		10017	(212) 953-7300
CECC	Cenelec Electronic Components Committee
CED	Civil Engineering Data, Dept.   P.O. Box 631			Vicksburg, MS		39180
	 of the Army, Waterways Experiment
 	 Station, Corps of Engineers
CEN	Comite Europeen de Tour Europe, Cedex 7, 92080 		        Paris, LaDefense, France
	 Normalisation, c/o Association Francaise de Normalization,
CENELEC	European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization		Arlington, VA		22202	(703) 979-0900
CGA	Compressed Gas Association,    Crystal Gateway 1, Suite 501,
		                        1235 Jefferson Davis Highway
CGSB	Canadian General Stand. Board  15th Floor, Suite 1501		Ottaws, ON, 		K1A 1GB	(613) 941-8709
			                222 Queen Street
CIAC	Ceramics Info. Analysis Center  2595 Yeager Road		West Lafayette IN	47906	(317) 494-9393
	CIAC/CINDAS - Purdue Univ.
CINS	Composites Institute            355 Lexington Ave.		New York, NY		10017	(212) 351-5410
CNS	Chinese National Standards      3rd Floor 185 Section 		Taipei, Taiwan		10637
		                        2 Hsin Hai Road
COFREND	Comite Francais des Essais      32 Boulevard de la Chapelle	75880 Paris Cedex 18	France
	Non Destructifs (French)
CPIA	Chemical Propulsion Information	10630 Little Patuxent Pkwy	Columbia, MD		21044	(410) 992-7300
	 Agency	JHU/Chem. Prop.
	 Info. Agency
CSA	Canadian Standards Association  178 Rexdale Blvd		Rexdale, Ontario,Canada	M9W 1R3	(416) 744-4000
CSNDT	Canadian Society for NDT        Unit 47, 2400 Lucknow Dr.	Mississauga, Ontario,
									CANADA,			L5S 1T9	(416) 676-0785
DGZFP	Deutche Gesellschaft fur        Unter Den Eichen 87		Germany
	 Zerstorungsfreie Prufung eV    1000 Berlin 45
	 (German Soc. for NDT)
DIN	Deutsches Institut fur Normung  Burggrafenstrasse 6		Berlin 30, Germany
			                Postfach 1107, D-1000
DoA	US Department of the Army       1655 Woodson Road		St. Louis, MO		63114-6181
	US Army Pub. Dist. Center
DoE	US Department of Energy	        P.O. Box 62			Oak Ridge, TN		37830
	 Technical Information Center
EIA	Electronic Indust. Association  2001 Eye Street, N.W.		Washington, DC		20006	(202) 457-4900
EJMA	Expansion Joint Manuf's Assoc.  25 N. Broadway			Tarrytown, NY		10591
EMPF	Elect. Manuf. Prodctvty Fclty	714 N. Senate Avenue		Indianapolic, IN	46202	(317) 226-5607
EPRI	Electric Power Research Instit.	P.O. Box 217097			Charlette, NC		28221	(704) 547-6174
ESI	Electricity Supply Industry (Great Britian)
EWGAE	The European Working Group on Acoustic Emission
FCI	Fluid Controls Institute, Inc.	31 South Street, Suite 303	Morristown, NJ		07960	(201) 829-0990
			                P.O. Box 9036
GPO	Superintendent of Documents     U.S. Government	Printing Office	Washington, DC		20402	(202) 783-3238
HI	Hydraulic Institute	        712 Lakewood Center N		Cleveland, OH		44107
				        14600 Detroit Ave.
CNDT	International Committee for Nondestructive Testing
ICRP	International Commission on     P.O. Box 35, GB-DIDCOT, 	Oxon, United Kingdom	OX11 ORJ 44(235)833929
	 Radiological Protection
ICRU	International Commission on     7910 Woodmont Ave.,Suite 800	Bethesda, MD		20814	(301) 657-2652
	 Radiation Units & Measurements
IEC	Intern. Electrotechnical Comm.  Case Postale 131,               Switzerland			41 22 734 0150
					 CH-1211 Geneva 20
IEEE	"Institute of Electrical &      445 Hoes Lane                   Piscataway, NJ		08855	(201) 562-3800
	 Electronics Engineers, Inc."   P.O. Box 1331
IIE	Institute of Industrial Eng.	25 Technology Park		Norcross, GA		30092	(404) 449-0460
IIW	The International Institute of Welding
IPC	The Institute for Interconnecting   7380 N. Lincoln Avenue	Lincolnwood, IL		60646	(312) 677-2850
	 and Packaging Electronic Circuits
ISA	Instrument Society of America	P.O. Box 12277, Research Triangle Park	NC		27709	(909) 549-8411
ISO	International Organization 	Case postale 56	CH-1211,
	 for Standardization		 Geneva 20"			Switzerland		41 22 734 1240
JANNAF	Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force
	 Interagency Propulsion Comm.	CPIA/The John Hopkins Univ.	Laurel, MD		20707	(301) 992-7307
					Applied Physics Laboratory
JANS	Joint Army-Navy Specifications and Standards
JFSS	Steel Casting & Forging Association - Japan
LIA	Laser Institute of America
MCIC	Metals and Ceramics Information Center	See MIAC for metals	See CIAC for ceramics
MIAC	Metals Infor. Analysis Center	MIAC/CINDAS - Purdue Univ.	West Lafayette IN	47906	(317) 494-9393
					 2595 Yeager Road
MMCIAC	Metal Matrix Composite 		Kaman Sciences Corporation	Santa Barbara, CA	39102	(805) 963-6455
	 Information Analysis Center	 P.O. Box 1479
MOD UK	British Defense Standards	Stan 1, Kentigern Housse	Glasglow, Great Britan	G2 8EX	44 41 218 9000
					65 Brown Street
MRS	Materials Research Society	9800 McKnight Rd.		Pittsburgh, PA		15237	(412) 367-3003
MSS	Manufacturers Standardization 	127 Park Street, N.E.		Vienna, VA		22180	(703) 281-6613
	 Society of the Valve
	 & Fitting Industry, Inc.
MVA	Machine Vision Association of SME
NA	Metric Standards, Aerospace Industries Association
NACE	Natnl Assoc. of Corrosion Eng.	P.O. Box 218340			Houston, TX		77218	(713) 492-0535
NAS	National Aerospace Standard, rom Aerospace Ind. Assoc. of America (AIA)"		see AIA
NAVSEA	Naval Sea Systems Command	c/o Naval Pub. & Forms Center	Philadelphia, PA	19120	(215) 697-3321
					 5801 Tabor Ave.
NBBPVI	National Board of Boiler 	1055 Crupper Ave.		Columbus, OH		43229	(614) 888-8320
	 & Pressure Vessel Inspectors
NBS	National Bureau of Standards (Old name for NIST)
NCRP	National Council on Radiation	7910 Woodmont Ave., Suite 800	Bethesda, MD		20814	(301) 657-2652
	 Protection & Measurements
NDIS	The Japanese Society for NDI; 	Hashimoto Bldg.	5-4-5 		Tokyo, 111, Japan
	 Japanese NDI Society		 Asakusabashi Taito-Ku
NEMA	National Elect. Manuf. Assoc.	2101 L Street, N.W., Suite 300	Washington, DC		20037	(202) 457-8400
NFPA	National Fire Protection Assoc	1 Batterymarch Park		Quincy, MA		02269	(617) 770-3000
					 P.O. Box 9101
NIST	National Institute of Standards	Route 270 & Quince Orchard Road	Gaithersburg, MD	20899	(301) 975-2000
	 and Technology
NPFC	Naval Publication and 		5801 Taber Avenue		Philadelphia, PA	19120	(215) 697-3321
	 Forms Center
NTIAC	NDT Information Analysis Center	Texas Research Inst. Austin	Austin, TX		78746	(512) 263-2106
					415A Crystal Creek Drive
NTIS	National Tech. Inform. Service, 5285 Port Royal Road		Springfield, VA		22161	(703) 487-4650
	 U.S. Department of Commerce
OSHA	Occupational Safety and Health 	200 Constitution Ave., N.W.	Washington, DC		20001
	 Administration
PFI	Pipe Fabrication Institute	612 Lenore Avenue		Springdale, PA		15144	(412) 274-4722
	 				P.O. Box 173
PLASTEC	Plastics Tech. Eval. Center	U.S. Army Armament		Picatinny Arsenal	07801	(201) 724-4222
					 Munitions & Chemicals Command
PPI	Plastics Pipe Institute		250 Park Avenue			New York, NY		10017	(212) 687-2675
PVRC	Pressure Vessel Research Committee
QNDE	Quantitative NDE Group		Iowa State University		Ames, IA		50011	(515) 294-8152
	c/o Center for NDE
RAC	Reliability Analysis Center	RADC/RAC			Griffis AFB, NY		13441	(315) 330-4151
RDT	Reactor Development & Technology standards of DoE (now called NE standards)
RWMA	Resistance Welder Manufacturers	1900 Arch Street		Philadelphia, PA 	19103	(215) 564-3484
	 Association
SAA	Standards Assoc. of Australia	P.O. Box 1055			Strathfield, NSW, Australia	011 6127464700
SACMA	Suppliers of Advanced Composite
	 Materials Association		1600 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1008	Arlington, VA		22209	(703) 841-1556
SAE	Society of Automotive Eng.	400 Commonwealth Drive		Warrendale, PA		15096	(412) 776-4841
SAMPE	Society for the Advancement 	P.O. Box 2459			Covina, CA		91722	(818) 331-0616
	 of Material & Process Eng.
SANZ	Standards Assoc. of New Zealand	6h Floor, Wellington Trade Cnt	Wellington,  NZ, 64 4 384 2108
					181-187 Victoria St.
SCRATA	Steel Castings Research and 	5 East Bank Road		Sheffield S2 3PT, ENGLAND
	 Trade Association
SEM	Society for Experimental 	7 School St.			CT			06801	(203) 790-6373
	 Mechanics (formerly SESA)
SFSA	Steel Founders Society of America
SMACNA	"Sheet Metal&Air Conditioning 	P.O. Box 70			Merrifield, VA		22116	(703) 790-9890
CNASME	Contractors' National 		1 SME Drive, P.O. Box 930	Dearborn, MI		48121	(313) 271-1500
	Association, Inc. Society of Manufacturing Eng.
SPI	The Society of the Plastics 	1275 K Street N.W., Suite 400   Washington, DC		20005
	Industry, Inc.
SPIE	Society of Photo-Optical 	P.O. Box 10			Bellingham, WA		98227	(206) 676-3290
	Instrumentation Engineers
SSNTTD	Soviet Society for Nondestructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics
SSPC	Steel Struct. Painting Council	4400 Fifth Ave.			Pittsburgh, PA		15213	(412) 268-3327
TAPPI	TAPPI (formerly Technical 	Technology Park/Atlanta		Atlanta, GA		30348	(404) 446-1400
	 Associaton of the Pulp & 	P.O. Box 105113
	 Paper Industry)
TMS	The Metallurgical Society, Inc.	420 Commonwealth Drive		Warrendale, PA		15086	(412) 776-9024
	 /The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
TWI	The Welding Institute
UBPVLS	Uniform Boiler & Pressure
	 Vessel Laws Society		2838 Long Beach Road		Oceanside, NY		11572	(516) 536-5485
UIC	International Union of Railways
	 des chemins de fer		14, rue Jean Rey		F-75015 PARIS	FRANCE		33(1)42730120
UL	Underwriters Labs, Inc.		333 Pfingsten Road		Northbrook, IL		60062	(708) 272-8800
UM	University Microfilms		A Xerox Company			Ann Arbor, MI		48106
					300 North Zeeb Road
WRC	Welding Research Council	345 East 47th St.		New York, NY		10017	(212) 705-7956
	United Engr. Center

For more information you can contact: Yoseph Bar-Cohen or Cheng Hsieh Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), M.S. 82-105, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 Phone: 818-354-2610 Fax: 818-393-4057 E-Mail: yosi@jpl.nasa.gov