CAREER: Coordinated Application of Constitutive Models, Simulation and Experiment for Study of Metal Forming Processes

金属的变形特性通常是在受控的实验室环境中确定的。由此产生的数学模型随后被应用到现代工业设施的复杂过程中——理论与实践之间的差距往往会损害成功。该职业奖支持对实验测试制度和金属行为的详细计算机模型的协调研究。通过计算机模拟增强实验试验，对常规实验室试验和工厂生产实践之间具有复杂性的加工途径进行了详细的检查。目标是提高计算机模型的预测能力，然后利用模拟进一步开发新颖，更有效的过程。这种物理驱动模型的练习，以一种对实际工业处理具有洞察力的方式，非常自然地鼓励将课堂知识应用于现实世界的实践。通过工业联系进行的渐进式改进项目是高级本科设计课程的理想范围。在这里，本科生获得了现代工程实践的初步介绍。研究的多学科方面必然会引导研究生与工业界和政府实验室的研究人员进行互动。从整体上看，这个研究和教育项目为基础科学和工业应用的专业发展提供了一条道路。

Deformation properties of metals are typically established in a controlled laboratory environment. The resulting mathematical models are then applied to complex processes of the modern industrial facility -- with success often impaired by the disparity between theory and practice. This Career Award supports research into the coordination of experimental test regimes and detailed computer models for metal behavior. Augmenting experimental trials with computer simulation, detailed examination is made for processing pathways having complexity between a routine laboratory test and a plant production practice. The goal is to improve the predictive capability of computer models, then utilize the simulations to further development of novel, more efficient processes. This exercise of physically motivated models in a manner that bears insight to practical industrial processing quite naturally encourages application of classroom knowledge to real-world practice. Projects for incremental improvement - motivated through industrial liaison - are of ideal scope for the senior-level undergraduate design course. Here, the undergraduate gains gentle introduction to modern engineering practice. The multidisciplinary aspect of the research necessarily leads the graduate student toward interaction with researchers in both industry and government laboratories. Viewed as a whole, this research and educational program renders a path for professional development with both a foundation in basic science and application to industry.