SYMPOSIUM D

COMPOSITES

Excellent mechanical properties, stability, advantageous production conditions, low price, and great opportunities for designing make composite materials an attractive group of engineering materials with a variety of applications in various fields. Further expansion into new areas of applications depends on the development of new and improvement of the existing materials and processing techniques, production cost decrease as well as on the study of the nature and composition of the materials. One of the main research aims is investigation of the interactions of the constituent phases at interfaces. It represents a prerequisite condition for understanding of the behaviour of composites in the field of mechanical forces, and for improvement of their production process and properties.
The emphasis of the symposium will be put on the following topics:

• Polymer, metal, and ceramic based composites;
• Nanocomposites;
• New methods in synthesis and fabrication of composite materials;
• Interaction between constituent phases of composites and interface phenomena;
• Properties and characterization of composites;
• Application of composites.