Book Description
Composites 2000: An International Symposium on Composite Materials" commemorates the 25th anniversary of the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials. The objective of the symposium is to highlight advances in composite materials and manufacturing processes by bringing together worldwide leaders in the field of composites to share their extensive knowledge of these topics with representatives of industry, government, and academia. The technical program comprises papers in four theme areas: Mechanics and Design, Materials and Synthesis, Processing Science, and Performance and Durability. Coverage of the current state of the art is complemented by the provision of insight into the future of advanced composites for the next millennium. These topics were selected based on the philosophy that processing creates microstructure, which determines properties; in turn, properties coupled with environment determine performance, while the objective of design is to predict the effects of all of these interrelated variables. This philosophy has formed the foundation of the Center's research program for much of the past quarter century, and it permeates the technical program of the International Symposium on Composite Materials.