The Third International Conference on Progress in Durability Analysis of Composite Systems

*** 9714608复合材料系统耐久性国际会议取得了广泛认可的成功，它将力学和材料技术领域的科学家和工程师聚集在一起，这对经济和国防至关重要。这是第3次在美国举行的会议，向国际组织委员会提出了成功的建议。本次会议还着重于美国、欧洲和日本之间的联合活动，特别是在当前对这些国家非常重要的技术领域。将特别关注高性能复合材料，特别是聚合物和陶瓷复合材料，以及最近在布鲁塞尔的美国-欧共体材料研究委员会确定的所有材料的时间依赖性行为。会议的一个独特特点是在每次会议结束时汇编概念上的进展，而下一次会议则以前几次会议取得的进展为基础。以这种方式选择了概念作为本届会议的主要重点。这次会议的及时性特别重要。欧洲已经启动了几个主要的国家项目，研究用于恶劣环境的高性能材料，这些项目的第一批成果刚刚开始出现。请求支持本次会议的一个主要原因是提供一种方法，邀请并邀请美国和欧洲在这些技术领域的主要参与者参加会议，向美国技术界提供有关这些活动和相关研究方向的重要信息，特别是有可能邀请年轻的研究人员参加会议，否则他们无法负担得起。会议组织由弗吉尼亚理工大学负责，该研究所提供有限的资金支持。合作的美国组织包括弗吉尼亚材料系统研究所和佐治亚理工学院；正在联系其他人。会议的范围包括所有类型的高性能聚合物和复合材料系统，界面和界面相，高温材料，智能材料和结构，疲劳，断裂和损伤分析。约有16名应邀发言者已承诺参加会议，并收到40份提交的摘要。投稿论文将于1997年2月选出

*** 9714608 The International Conference on Durability of Composite Systems has enjoyed widely recognized success in bringing together scientists and engineers in a technical area of mechanics and materials that is important to the economy and critical to the defense of our country. This third Conference is the first ever to be held in the U.S., the result of a successful proposal to the International organizing board. This Conference also focuses on joint activities between the U.S., Europe, and Japan, especially in technical areas of great current importance to those countries. Special attention will be given to high performance composites, especially polymeric and ceramic composites, and to the time-dependent behavior of all materials as identified by the recent U.S.-EC Commission on materials research in Brussels. A unique feature of the Conference is the fact that conceptual progress is compiled at the end of each Conference, and the next Conference builds on the progress that was made in previous ones. Concepts were chosen in that way for the primary focus of the current Conference. The timeliness of this Conference is of special importance. Europe has initiated several major national programs in high performance materials for severe environments, and the first results of those programs are just becoming available. A major reason for requesting support for this Conference is to provide a means of inviting and bringing to the Conference the major U.S. and European players in those technical areas to bring important information about those activities and the associated directions of research to the U.S. technical community, and especially to make it possible to bring young researchers to the Conference who could not otherwise afford to come. Conference organization Conference organization is being handled by Virginia Tech with limited financial backing from that Institute. Cooperating U.S. organizations include the Virginia Institute for Material Systems, and Georgia Tech; others are being contacted. The scope of the Conference includes all types of high performance polymer and composite systems, interfaces and interphases, high-temperature materials, smart materials and structures, fatigue, fracture, and damage analysis. Some 16 invited speakers have committed to the Conference, and 40 contributed abstracts have been received. Contributed papers will be chosen in February of 1997.***