On 14-16 November, 1990 the 1st Moscow International Conference on Composites was held by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Association for Advanced Materials. Over 1200 scientists and experts from the USSR, the USA, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, PR China, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and other countries took part in the conference. The conference was headed by the International Organizing Committee, consisting of B.E. Paton (USSR), I.N. Fridlyander (USSR), S.P. Efimenko (USSR), S. Dastin (USA), L. Cohen (USA), Ashok K. Dhingra (USA), J. de Bossu (France) and others. The conference plenary session was arranged at the Moscow Lomonosov State University and in the conference hall of the Kosmos Hotel. At the conference, 10 sessions were organized covering the following topics: 1. Production and properties of fibres. 2. Production and properties of matrix materials. 3. Physical chemistry in composite materials technology. 4. Structure and properties of composite materials. 5. Manufacturing technologies for polymer matrix and carbon matrix composites 6. Manufacturing technologies for metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites 7. Coatings for fibres and composites. 8. Composite mechanics and mathematical models. 9. Workability and applications of composites. 10. Processing equipment and quality control methods. The sessions were held in pavilions of the USSR National Economy Achievements Exhibition.
