NSF/AFOSR Joint Project for an Interactive, Distributed, Computational Environment for Design of Multifunctional Materials and Processes

该奖项为AFOSR研究项目提供补充支持，以支持对多功能材料设计和产品实现的交互式、协作性设计和制造计算框架的研究。有了这笔补充资金，研究生将被提供支持，以调查关于材料的信息(包括模拟、性质和不确定性方面)如何以计算机可解释的方式表示以支持大型协作DFM框架中的设计的基本问题。预期该项目产生的软件工具将作为网上教育和传播模块。这种用于设计定制、坚固、多功能和可制造的新型产品的材料框架的开发，应该有助于缩短开发和插入广泛的新材料和产品的周期。这将对一系列创新产品产生广泛影响，其中包括许多类别的材料，如泡沫和镍基高温合金。

This award provides supplemental support to an AFOSR research project to support the research into an interactive, collaborative design and manufacture computational framework for multifunctional materials design and product realization. With this supplemental funding, graduate student support will be provided to investigate the fundamental question regarding how information about materials, that includes simulation, properties, and uncertainty aspects, can be represented in a computer interpretable manner to support design in the context of the large collaborative DFM Framework. It is expected that the software tools that result from this project will be set up as a web-based education and dissemination module. This development of a materials framework for designing novel products that are customized, robust, multifunctional, and manufacturable, should contribute to improve cycle times for the development and insertion of a broad range of new materials and products. This will have broad impact on a range of innovative products that include many classes of materials such as cellular foams and nickel-based superalloys.