Announcement and Call for Abstracts

       MINISYMPOSIUM ON FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS (FGM)

     Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
            University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA
                           August 4-6, 1999
                 http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99

Symposium Organizer: G. H. Paulino

This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for presenting and discussing
innovative techniques for modeling and understanding the behavior of
functionally graded materials (FGM) and structures.  Due to the
multidisciplinary nature of the field, a broad set of materials
(e.g. metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, and natural or
synthetic composites) are considered.

Contributions are being solicited in the following areas:

- Computer aided design of FGMs
- Technology transfer and industrial applications
- Finite and boundary element methods
- Integral equation methods
- Optimization
- Inverse problems
- Testing
- Residual stresses
- Fracture mechanics of FGMs
- Elasticity, plasticity, viscoplasticity, creep
- Multi-scale modeling
- Physical/geometrical/mechanical properties

If you are interested in contributing to this Symposium, please
submit a one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to the
organizer listed below on or before DECEMBER 15, 1998.
Notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the
corresponding author by JANUARY 15, 1999. If the abstract is co-
authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding author
and the presenting author.

Abstracts may be submitted in one of three forms:
(1) plain text,
(2) TeX source compatible with the Plain TeX format, or
(3) Word 6 or 7 document in Rich Text Format (RTF).
Please do not include figures or graphics.
Avoid equations in title or text. Greek letters are acceptable if the
abstract is submitted in TeX or Word. For samples of forms (1) and (2)
click links in
http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Abstracts.d/Instructions.html.

A final version of the Abstract, for inclusion in the printed book
of Abstracts, may be submitted before May 15, 1999. This final form
is to be sent directly to the Congress e-mail address following
the instructions posted on the Web Site.

Symposium organizer address:

Prof. Glaucio H. Paulino
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-5294, USA
Phone:  (530)754.9248
FAX:    (530)752.7872
E-mail: ghpaulino@ucdavis.edu