U.S.-Italy Joint Symposium on Processing and Manufacturing Science of Polymeric Matrix Composite Materials; June 6-10, 1988, Capri, Italy

该奖项将部分支持由以下机构联合举办的研讨会： 位于密苏里州圣路易斯的华盛顿大学教授约翰·卡多斯和 L.教授意大利那不勒斯大学的尼古拉就 聚合物基复合材料的加工。 近年来， 复合材料的应用已经从航空航天领域扩展到 应用于消费品行业。 许多消费品 必须以相对较低的单位成本大量生产， 航空航天制造商也很敏感 低单位成本对扩展应用的影响。 低 单位成本又与短的生产周期有关 和高产量。 在这方面， 复合材料的固化、成型和成形方法 代表材料和制造的重大变更 组织作为技术对设计的影响 发展功能。 本次研讨会，由美国国家科学基金会共同支持， (NSF)和意大利国家研究理事会（CNR），将带来 来自工业界和学术界的领先研究人员一起， 讨论进展和当前的问题，在处理这些 材料，从而帮助解决制造过程操作 在消费品行业和那些行业中， 所述复合材料用于高性能的初级 结构应用。 由于目前全世界对 复合材料，这次研讨会是及时和潜力 对美国和意大利有利，而且应该增加 美国和意大利研究人员之间的合作互动。

This award will partially support a symposium jointly organized by Prof. John Kardos of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and Prof. L. Nicolais of the University of Naples, Italy on the topic of processing of polymeric matrix composite materials. In recent years, the use of composite materials has expanded from aerospace applications to consumer product industries. Many consumer products must be produced in large volume and at relatively low unit cost, not to mention the fact that aerospace manufacturers are also sensitive to the leverage that low unit cost has on expanded applications. Low unit costs in turn are associated with short production cycle times and high production yields. In this context, management of the curing, forming, and shaping processes for composite materials represents as significant a change to the materials and manufacturing organizations as the impact the technology has had on the design development functions. This symposium, jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Italian National Research Council (CNR), will bring together leading researchers from both industry and academia to discuss advances and current problems in the processing of these materials, thus helping to address manufacturing process operations in both the consumer product industries and in those industries in which composite materials are utilized in high performance primary structural applications. Because of current worldwide interest in composite materials, this symposium is both timely and of potential benefit to the U.S. and Italy and, furthermore, should increase collaborative interactions between U.S. and Italian researchers.