CALL FOR PAPERS (ICCE/7)

Dear Colleague:

     We are glad to inform you the overwhelming success of
ICCE/1,2,3,...6, conferences and the receipt of tremendous
interest and support from many of the composite materials
researchers, manufacturers and users from all over the world.
The Seventh Annual International Conference on Composites
Engineering, ICCE/7 conference, July 2-8, 2000, will be held
in DENVER, COLORADO, USA. The ICCE conference is one of the
largest annual technical conferences in the world on composite
materials. The conference is sponsored by over 65 societies,
associations and prestigious research centers, and will feature
over 450 oral presentations.

     You are welcomed to attend/present a paper at this conference.
We also welcome research and development exhibitions.
kindest regards

David Hui
Professor, Chair ICCE/7
http://www.uno.edu/~engr/composites.html

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                         CALL FOR PAPERS (ICCE/7)
   SEVENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITES ENGINEERING
                DENVER, COLORADO, USA, July 2-8, 2000

    sponsored by International Community for Composites Engineering
                     and UNO College of Engineering

     The major goals of the ICCE/7 DENVER COLORADO conference are:

(1) to bridge the gap between mechanics, materials science and
        processing of composites

(2) Interdisciplinary Approach involving different disciplines,
        such as plastics engineering, chemistry, powder metallurgy,
        electronic packaging or nano-materials, minerals & mining,
        mechanics, materials, manufacturing

(3) to encourage interactions between basic and applied composites
        research, interdisciplinary research

(4) to bridge the gap between aerospace and infrastructures
        composites research

     The following symposium will be highlighted in the ICCE/7
Denver Colorado conference, many other important topics which
are not listed below will also be included. The names of the
symposium representatives are listed in parenthesis, the first person
is from Europe or Asia or Australia or Africa, the second one is from USA)

- Aging and Durability (K. Takemura, A. Mirmiran)
- Bio- or Dental Composites (K. Wakasa, S. Suzuki)
- Characterization of Materials (Chien-Ping Ju, Charles Yang)
- Chemistry (Peter Hing, R.D. Sudduth)
- Ceramics Composites (K. Miyazawa, Chun-Hway Hsueh)
- Computational Mechanics (H. Rothert, Solomon To)
- Damage, Fracture, Fatigue (A.D. Nurse, Y. Dzenis)
- Design and Optimization (B. Sun, F. Gordaninejad)
- Experimental Techniques (C. Scarponi, M. Hung)
- Fiber Properties or Science (S.T. Mileiko, Karl Jacob)
- Flammability (G. Thomas, P. Dutta)
- Functionally Gradient Mat. (P. Colomban, J. Nadeau)
- General Applications (Maik Gude, Jeff Hall)
- Impact Damage (C. Navarro, B.L. Lee)
- Industrial Composites (Jong-Ho Lee, A. Kalamkarov)
- Infrastructure Composites (Yi-Lung Mo, A. Mosallam)
- Interface, Interphase (Joung-Man Park, G.P. Tandon)
- Joints and Adhesion (Tai-Yan Kam, Cheung Poon)
- Mathematical Modeling (L.E. Persson, S.R. Lin)
- Manufacturing (Tai-Chiu Lee, P. Dutta)
- Metal Matrix Composites (Sri Bandyopadhyay, H. Garmestani)
- Micromechanics (Jerry Kapelewski, Yantian Zhu)
- Non Destructive Testing (Karl Maile, R.G. Maev)
- Nano-Materials (H. Paradies, Andre Lee)
- Optimization and Design (C. Mota Soares, J. Lua)
- Particulate Composites (D. Bhattacharyya, Jimmy Liu)
- Plastics Engineering (G. Duvall, Su-Seng Pang)
- Powder Metallurgy (J. Toribio, Jason Lo)
- Processing of MMC, CMC, PMC (J.H. Lee, C. Zhang)
- Smart Composites (W. Ostachowicz, J. Sankar)
- Structural Dynamics/Vibration (F. Rammerstorfer, V. Birman)
- Textile Composites (M. Touratier, Youjiang Wang)
- Wood or Hybrid Materials (P. Boisse, A. Oudjehane)
- Wave Propagation (V. Verijenko, K. Balasubramanan)

     The ICCE/7 Denver Colorado conference proceedings will consist
of extended abstracts. The abstract should be written on a
regular size 11"x8.5" paper (for authors outside USA). It
consists of two pages where each page has a two-column format.
Please use single-line space to allow maximum information. It
has at least one figure and the paper title should be of
approximately size 14 all capital "bold" typeset, one inch
margin at the bottom edge and 3/4 inch margin on other three
edges. Laser-print quality is required. Please underline
the name of the presenter, otherwise, the communicating
author is assumed to be the presenter. Due to limited space of
over 450 oral paper presentations, each presenter will present
no more than one paper. If you or your colleagues would like
to develop sessions, please write to Dr. David Hui.
ABSTRACT SUBMITTER MUST AGREE TO PRESENT THE PAPER AT ICCE/6
Abstracts should be submitted by postal mail.

     Interested author should submit "IMMEDIATELY" the tentative
PAPER TITLE to: Dr. David Hui, University of New Orleans,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, New Orleans, LA 70148.
Tel: (504)-280-6652, FAX: (504)-280-5539, email: dhui@uno.edu
we will update our web page soon,
http://www.uno.edu/~engr/composites.html

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The ICCE/7 Registration fee is $290.00 before April 2, 2000
or $340.00 before May 2, 2000, or $390.00 after May 2, 2000
The ICCE registration fee remains unchanged in four consecutive
years, despite rising costs and inflation.

Students will be admitted to ICCE/7 free of charge
(no proceedings, no food breverages) under the conditions:

(i) student does not present paper
(ii) thesis advisor must show up at the conference
(iii) currently-enrolled full-time student with ID,
          postdoctorals are not students

Since our registration fee is already significantly lower
than many other scientific technical conferences in the world,
students who present papers must pay full regular registration fee.

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ICCE/7 GOVERNMENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP, Wednesday July 5, 2000
Denver, Colorado
co-chairmen: Prof. Jag Sankar and Prof. David Hui

representatives from ONR, ARO, DOE, NASA, NIST, DOT, AFOSR, NSF,
etc. will present plenary talks on composites research overview
and proposal submission information
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ICCE/7 DENVER COLORADO INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Sabit Adanur, Sri Bandyopadhyay, Julio Davalos, Madjid Fathi,
Faramarz Gordaninejad, Zouheir Hashem, Paul Herrington,
Michael Hung, Michael Kaliske, Tai-Yan Kam, Gary Krumweide,
B.L. Lee, Tai-Chiu Lee, Jason Lo, Enayat Mahajerin, Yi-Lung Mo,
Pavel Mogilevsky, Pierre Morlier, A. Oudjehane, Cheung Poon,
Ram Prabhakaran, Jag Sankar, Paul Sawhney, Khaled Sobhan,
G.P. Tandon, Solomon To, Youjiang Wang, Chuck Zhang

ICCE/7 Editorial Board

Gary Anderson, Victor Birman, Philippe Boisse, Alex Bogdanovich,
C.C. Chao, Victor Chen, Philippe Colomban, Subhendu K. Datta,
Piyush Dutta, Mauro Ferrari, Farmarz Gordaninejad, John Gyekenyesi,
Chun-Hway Hsueh, Rakesh Kapania, Alex Kalamkarov, Isao Kimpara,
Satish Kumar Ayman Mosallam, C. Mota Soares, Carlos Navarro,
Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Nick Pagano, Su-seng Pang, Lars-Erik Persson,
Marek J. Pindera, Franz Rammerstorfer, Yapa Rajapakse,
Heinrich Rothert, Huai-Min Shang, George Simitses, R.C. Tennyson,
Geoff Turvey, Anthony Waas, Viktor Verijenko, Kunio Wakasa

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ATTRACTIONS IN DENVER AREA, COLORADO

1. Denver is known as "MILE HIGH CITY" because it is approx.
one mile above sea level (5280 ft), population 2,100,000,
excellent weather, over 300 days of sunshines per year,
more hours of annual sun than San Diego or Miami Beach.
You can stand exactly one mile above sea level on one
of the "marked" steps of the Capital building, overlooking
the beautiful gardens of Civic Center Park and the nearby
snowcapped peaks of the Rocky Mountains.

2. "THINNEST" city in the USA, according to federal study,
and Colorado is tied with Hawaii for having the skinniest
population. Less than 20% of the adults in Colorado are overweight.

3. Denver has the "HIGHEST EDUCATED" population in USA, with
many professional highly trained people residing in this city,
with more high school and colleage graduates per capita than
any other USA city. Denver leads the USA in terms of the
number of library card holders.

4. Denver has the "SECOND LARGEST PERFORMING ARTS" Complex
in the USA with eight theatres seating more than 10,000 audience.
Denver Center Theatre Co. won the Tony Award in 1998.

5. Denver has over 70 golf courses, remember that at a mile
high, the golf balls travel 9% further than at sea level.
Denver is one of only 10 cities in the USA to have all four major
league "SPORTS" (i) defending super Bowl champion NFL, (ii)
1996 Stanley Cup champion (iii) top 11 attendance records in
Major league baseball, (iv) NBA Denver Nuggets; and two
soccer teams.

6. With over 200 parks in the city limits and 20,000 acres of
mountain peaks nearby , the Denver has the "LARGEST CITY PARK"
system in USA. Examples of city parks are, Civic Center
park, City Park, Cheesman Park, Washington Park, Red Rocks Amphitheatre,
Buffalo Heard, Beffalo Bill's Grave, Echo Lake.

7. Denver has the "LARGEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT" (53 square miles)
in the USA, it is larger than Chicago O'Hare and Dallas-FW airports
combined. The airport has beautiful mountain views and is well
maintained and well organized.

8. Denver has the LARGEST SINGLE BREWERY in the world, it has
the largest Brew pub in the USA and has over 12 craft brewers.

8. Denver's downtown "16th street" is internationally known for
for shopping, dining and entertainments.

9. The Mount Evans is 24 miles from the nearby town of Idaho
Springs and the top (14260 feet high) has the "HIGHEST PAVED AUTO
ROAD" in the USA.

10. Colorado is known for its spectacular scenery, and
Royal Gorge has the "WORLD HIGHEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE"
with over 1053 feet above the raging Arkansas River.
Each year over half a million peple walk or drive through
this quarter-mile span bridge to see breathtaking vistas of the
snow-capped rocky mountains and the blue-green river.

11. Pike's Peak (14110 feet) is known as the "SUMMIT OF AMERICA"
It is about one hour drive from Denver, it has spectacular
stunning beautiful views of the valleys and lakes. The Pikes Peak
Cog Railrad offer superb view of the mountains, and such rail
system is "WORLD HIGHEST" and reaches the peak of this mountain.
There are plenty of places of fishing, picnic areas, boating.
You have not seen Colorado until you have seen Pike's Peak.

12. Rocky Mountain National Park is one of America's most popular
tourist sites, and the Estes Park is absolutely "seeing is believing"
in terms of its stunning mountain beauty and abundance of wildlife
animals, please BRING A PAIR OF SPECTACLES. It is slightly over
one hour drive from Denver. The Estes Park is internationally
known for its natural beauty and many scenery observatory points,
and its scenery is routinely shown in many geographic magazines.
Received on Mon Oct 18 08:07:30 1999