AMAS-ISN: international scientific network for advanced materials and structures

The challenges faced by the knowledge-based society in quest of safe and healthy life conditions make advanced materials and structures a vital part of almost every technological or engineering project. To ensure optimal, durable, safe and environment-friendly performance of the advanced materials and structures, a concerted effort of experts in materials science and applied mechanics assisted by physicists and chemists is needed. In the International Scientific Network for Advanced Materials and Structures (AMAS-ISN), a number of competent research centres agreed upon combining their expertise to tackle a wide spectrum of problems ranging from manufacturing processes, laboratory testing to service conditions of advanced materials and structures.

Currently, the Network consists of 36 Polish research institutions (30 full- and 6 associate members) and 24 research teams from Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom. However, the AMAS-ISN is open for new members from academia and industry as long as their profile and competence fit the Network's objectives. It is worth stressing that the AMAS-ISN members' skills range from pure experimental research of material microstructure, via advanced mathematical modelling of materials and structures, computer simulations of processes and numerical implementation of mathematical models, to technological excellence of the advanced materials' manufacturers. It is expected that AMAS-ISN, as sizable and diversified as it is, will stimulate complementary and interdisciplinary research projects of high applicability to modern engineering and technology.