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

金属的变形特性通常在受控的实验室环境中建立。 由此产生的数学模型，然后应用到现代工业设施的复杂过程-与成功往往削弱理论和实践之间的差距。 该职业奖支持对金属行为的实验测试制度和详细计算机模型的协调研究。 用计算机模拟增强实验性试验，详细检查常规实验室测试和工厂生产实践之间具有复杂性的处理途径。其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的，更有效的过程。 这种以洞察实际工业过程的方式进行的物理激励模型的练习很自然地鼓励将课堂知识应用于现实世界的实践。 渐进式改进的项目-通过工业联络的动机-是高级本科设计课程的理想范围。在这里，本科生获得温和的介绍现代工程实践。 研究的多学科方面必然导致研究生与工业和政府实验室的研究人员进行互动。 从整体上看，这个研究和教育计划提供了一条专业发展的道路，既有基础科学的基础，又有工业应用的基础。

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.