Cellular metals and designed porous structures are attractive lightweight structural materials with potential applications in automotive, aerospace, electronics and other industry. Such materials as metal foams, sponge-like metals as well as periodic geometry core structures, e.g. truss core, honeycomb, hollow sphere, triangular core, etc. are being increasingly considered a solution for problems of light-weight construction, heat exchangers, passive safety, sound damping, filtering, thermal stability and other purposes. Other cellular structures are designed and built per mathematical design methodology to yield uncommon properties. A number of companies are involved in manufacturing such materials and evaluating their properties, and possible applications of cellular metals for a variety of purposes. Modeling of thermal effects, deformation and other characteristics have also made steady progress.

Proceedings of this special symposium will be prepared and made available at the time of the conference. A 10-page camera-ready manuscript will be required to be submitted by October 1, 2001. (Instructions for manuscript preparation will be mailed to the authors, after review of abstracts, around August 15, 2001).