

The objective of the 12th international symposium on multiscale, multifunctional & functionally graded materials (FGM 2012) intends to provide opportunities for exchanging ideas and discussing state-of-the-art theories, techniques and applications in the fields of multiscale, multifunctional and functionally graded materials (FGM), through invited lectures, oral and poster presentations.
A special session ‘2nd Sino-Russian Workshop on Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis’ will be arranged during FGM2012.
The series continues with previous international symposia on FGM held in Sendai, Japan (1990), San Francisco, USA (1992), Lausanne, Switzerland (1994), Tsukuba, Japan (1996), Dresden, Germany (1998), Estes Park, USA (2000), Beijing, China (2002), Leuven, Belgium (2004), Hawaii, USA (2006), Sendai, Japan (2008) and Guimaraes, Portugal (2010). |