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，以支持多功能材料设计和产品实现的交互式，协同设计和制造计算框架的研究。有了这笔补充资金，将提供研究生支持，以调查有关材料的信息，包括模拟，属性和不确定性方面的基本问题，可以以计算机可解释的方式表示，以支持在大型协作DFM框架的背景下进行设计。预计该项目产生的软件工具将作为一个网上教育和传播模块。这种用于设计定制的、坚固的、多功能的和可制造的新型产品的材料框架的开发，应该有助于改进开发和插入广泛的新材料和产品的周期时间。这将对一系列创新产品产生广泛的影响，其中包括许多类别的材料，如多孔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.