Technical Resume' of the 5th International Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials

摘要

The rich scientific substance of this symposium is thesum of 103 oral presentations, the one-day workshop, 125 posterpresentations and the wealth of discussions which were stimulatedby these presentations. In a brief final statement like this, basedon personal impressions collected during the conference, obviouslyone cannot expect more than a tentative description of essentialtrends. As all participants have their share in advancing the stateof knowledge on POM, it would also be in just to highlight a fewnames - hence we refrain from mentioning any names here.