Mission & Achievements of the APDIC community

 

Foundation

Formed in 1986, Orlando, Florida, USA under a Memorandum of Understanding

Mission

To meet the needs of the world wide technical community, the APDIC members agreed to:

• Coordinate the overall objectives for members’ programs and publications
• Establish assessment priorities
• Coordinate activities among members to reduce duplication of effort
• Promote quality standards for phase diagram evaluations
• Assist effective dissemination of data arising
• Promote the application of phase diagrams in industry and academia
• Advance evaluation and assessment programs world wide

Membership

17 member organizations involving 20 countries

Achievements

 

• Over 50 volumes published on binary and ternary alloy systems, by APDIC members such as:

 

 

• ASM International
• MSI, Materials Science International Services
• IIoM, The Indian Institute of Metals
• IoM3, The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining

 

 

• matport.com, a web-based global research platform for the critical evaluation of binary and ternary systems
• APDIC Awards:

 

 

• the annual “APDIC Best Paper Award”
• the “APDIC Industrial Award”