The 14th International Symposium of the Functionally Graded Materials held at Bayreuth, Germany (2016) will continue the series started with international symposia on FGM held in
- Sendai, Japan (1990)
- San Francisco, USA (1992)
- Lausanne, Switzerland (1994)
- Tsukuba, Japan (1996)
- Dresden, Germany (1998)
- Estes Park, USA (2000)
- Beijing, China (2002)
- Leuven, Belgium (2004)
- Hawaii, USA (2006)
- Sendai, Japan (2008)
- Guimaraes, Portugal (2010)
- Beijing, China (2012)
- Sao Paulo, Brazil (2014)