Dear colleague,

It is a pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to the 1st Brazilian
Conference on Composite Materials (BCCM1) which will be held in Natal, RN,
Brazil. The conference, scheduled for July 16-19,2012, is the first of a
series of conferences that will take place biennially in Brazil, intended
to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest
research and technology in the field of composite materials.

Please submit your one-page abstracts until November 30, 2011. Abstracts
must be submitted through email to bccm1@ct.ufrn.br. More details on the
website:

http://www.bccm1.ct.ufrn.br/

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:

- Active and Passive Health Monitoring
- Adaptive Composites
- Biomedical Composites
- Carbon and Ceramic Matrix Composites
- Damage and Fracture
- Durability and Aging
- Energy Technology Applications
- Environmental Awareness and Life Cycle Analysis
- Experimental Techniques
- Industrial Applications
- Green Composites
- Joints and Bearing Behavior
- Lignocellulosic Composites
- Mechanical and Physical Properties
- Metal Matrix Composites
- Multi-scale Modeling
- Nanocomposites
- NDE Technologies
- Processing and Manufacturing Technologies
- Recycling
- Simulation in Composites

We are looking forward to seeing you in Natal.

Sincerely,

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BCCM Organizing Committee
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