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密苏里州圣路易斯华盛顿大学的John Kardos教授和意大利那不勒斯大学的L. Nicolais教授共同举办的关于聚合物基复合材料加工主题的研讨会。近年来，复合材料的应用已从航空航天应用扩展到消费品工业。许多消费品必须以相对较低的单位成本大批量生产，更不用说航空航天制造商对低单位成本对扩展应用的影响也很敏感。较低的单位成本与较短的生产周期和较高的产量有关。在这种情况下，复合材料的固化、成型和成型过程的管理对材料和制造组织的影响与技术对设计开发功能的影响一样重要。本次研讨会由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和意大利国家研究委员会（CNR）联合支持，将汇集来自工业界和学术界的主要研究人员，讨论这些材料加工的进展和当前问题。因此，有助于解决消费品行业和那些在高性能主要结构应用中使用复合材料的行业的制造过程操作。由于目前全世界对复合材料的兴趣，这次研讨会既及时又对美国和意大利有潜在的好处，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.