Announcement and Call for Abstracts
    
              MINISYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF COMPOSITES

   To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
 Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

            Symposium Organizers: Roberta Massabo and Brian N. Cox

This MiniSymposium will bring together researchers working in the area of
composite materials and structures and provide a forum for presenting and
discussing different applications of Computational Mechanics.
Focus is on modeling of advanced composites used in aerospace and aeronautics, 
for high-performance applications, and in construction. Part of the 
MiniSymposium is devoted to textiles and sandwich/integral structures.
Contributions in the area of traditional composite materials and in
the area of electronic microsystems and microcomponents are also welcome.

The computational mechanics aspects of the analysis and design of composite 
materials and structures which are covered in the MiniSymposium are:

       Constitutive modeling and micromechanics
       Fracture, damage, delamination and interfaces
       Impact and dynamic effects
       Fatigue and rate dependence
       Temperature effects
       Damage tolerant design
       Processing and manufacturing

Submission Instructions:

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please submit a 
one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to the organizers using the 
e-mail address below before December 15, 1998. Abstracts sent by Fax or regular 
mail will not be considered.

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/Information.html

If the abstract is co-authored it must identify the e-mail address of the 
corresponding author.
All subsequent correspondence will take place by e-mail.

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be
communicated to the Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and
notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding author.

A final version 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.

MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

Dr. Roberta Massabo                            Dr. Brian N. Cox  
Dept. of Structural and Geotechnical Engng.    Rockwell Science Center
University of Genova                           1049 Camino Dos Rios    
Via Montallegro, 1, 16145, Genova, Italy       Thousand Oaks, California 91358 
Tel: +39 010 353 2956, Fax: -2534              Tel: (805) 373 4128, Fax: -4775 
massabo-cox@diseg.unige.it

Congress Program and Registration Information:

Posted at:  http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99