These two volumes are the proceedings of the eighth symposium organized by the Committee on Thermophysical Properties of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The symposia are held every three or four years.
The many papers collected in these volumes summarize the work of scientists and engineers who produce reference data on the properties of materials. These include both thermodynamic and transport data on gaseous, liquid, and solid compounds under wide ranges of temperature and pressure. Some report new data. Others report new techniques of measurement that enable one to obtain more accurate data, data under difficult conditions, and/or data on new materials. There is a substantial representation of theorists who are increasingly successful in correlating raw data and obtaining reliable new data by extension from the raw data based on theory.