The IUT AM Symposium on Microstructure Property Interactions in Composite Ma- rials was held during the dates 22nd to 25th August 1994 in Rebild Bakker Conference Centre, situated in the heart of one of Denmark's most beautiful natural areas. Participation in the Symposium was reserved for invited participants, suggested by members of the Scientific Committee. The cooperation with the Scientific Committee is highly appreciated. The Symposium brought together 76 researchers from 15 countries representing a broad range of backgrounds relevant to the topic of the meeting. The participants represented the disciplines of materials science and engineering, applied mechanics, applied mathematics and scientific computations. The Symposium comprehensively addressed the analytical, numerical and experimental methods that provide an estimation of the overall, effective properties from microstructural data. The 41 contributions emphasized the significance of the microstructure morphology in understanding the nature and origin of a multitude of properties such as viscoelasticity, plasticity, strength and fracture for a variety of polymer, metal and ceramic based composite materials. Specifically, the Symposium examined and reviewed the current state of the art of micromechanical modelling, experimental investigations and morphological qu- tification of composite materials' microstructure. The volume contains 35 papers published in an alphabetic order after the name of the first author. Much to regret of the Scientific Committee some manuscripts were not submitted. The financial support of the IUT AM, the Obels Family Foundation and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Aalborg University, is gratefully acknowledged.

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Comments on a variational micro-macro model for random composites and the integration of microstructural data; M. Arminjon, A. Bottero, B. Guessab, S. Turgeman. Correlation between fracture toughness and the microstructre morphology in transversely loaded unidirectional composites; M.S. Axelsen, R. Pyrz. The quantitative microstructure--property correlations of composite and porous materials: an engineering tool for designing new materials; A.R. Boccaccini, G. Ondracek. Crack growth in a composite with well aligned long fibres; J. Botsis, D. Zhao, C. Beldica. Fiber arrangement effects on the microscale stresses of continuously reinforced MMCs; H.J. Böhm, F.G. Rammerstorfer. Analytical/experimental study of interphase effects on composite compression strength; G.P. Carman, S. Eskandari. The measurement and modelling of fibre directions in composites; A.R. Clarke, N.C. Davidson, G. Archenhold. Transformation analysis of inelastic laminates; G.J. Dvorak, Y.A. Bahei-El-Din. Development of anisotropy of powder compaction; N.A. Fleck. Cracked laminates with imperfect interlaminar interface; Z. Hashin. Numerical modelling of crack growth in material models of fibrous composites; K.P. Hermann, F. Ferber. Analytical estimate of interaction among ellipsoidal inclusions: upper and lower bounds for strain energy due to interaction; M. Hori. Effective moduli of concentrated particulate solids; B.L. Karihaloo, J. Wang. Micromechanical analysis of the viscoelastic behaviour of composites; P. Kim. S. Toll, J-A.E. Månson. Construction of a stochastic macro-failure model of unidirectional fiber reinforced composites based on dynamic failure process simulations of micro-failure models; I. Kimpara, T. Ozaki. On impregnation quality and resulting mechanical properties of compressionmoulded commingled yarn based thermoplastic composites; V. Klinkmüller, R. Kästel, L. Ye, K. Friedrich. Morphology/loading direction coupling on the transverse behaviour of composites; D. Kujawski, Z. Xia, F. Ellyin. Bounds for overall nonlinear elastic or viscoplastic properties of heterogeneous solids; S. Nemat-Nasser, B. Balendran, M. Hori. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous plastic flow of fibrous composites; J. Ning, E.C. Aifantis. A FFT-based numerical method for computing the mechanical properties from images of their microstructure; H. Moulinec, P. Suquet. Hysteretic effects and progressive delamination at composite interfaces; Z. Mróz, S. Stupkiewicz. Observation of internal damage and inelastic deformation of graphite/epoxy laminate tubes under cyclic tension-compression; S. Murakami, Y. Kanagawa, T. Ishida, A. Kawasaki, Q.S. Bai. Interaction between a main crack and inclusions at shear stress state; V. Petrova. Recent work on mesostructures and the mechanics of fiber composites; M.R. Piggott. Stiffness reduction in composite laminates due to transverse matrix cracks; G.N. Praveen, J.N. Reddy. Discrete model of fracture in disordered two-phase materials; R. Pyrz, B. Bochenek. Evolution concepts for microstructure--property interactions in composite systems; K.L. Reifsnider. Off-axis fatigue life prediction using microstress analysis; G. Shen, G. Glinka, A. Plumtree. Microstructure characterization and FE-modelling of plastic flow in a duplex steel; T. Siegmund, F.D. Fischer, E.A. Werner. Properties of two-dimensional materials containing inclusions of various shapes; M.F. Thorpe, J. chen, I.M. Jasiuk. Reinforcement distribution effects on failure in particulate reinforced metals; V. Tvergaard. On the micromodelling of dynamic resp