Computational Materials Science

Computational Materials Science
Author: Dierk Raabe
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1998-10-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Modeling and simulation play an ever increasing role in the development and optimization of materials. Computational Materials Science presents the most important approaches in this new interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering. The reader will learn to assess which numerical method is appropriate for performing simulations at the various microstructural levels and how they can be coupled. This book addresses graduate students and professionals in materials science and engineering as well as materials-oriented physicists and mechanical engineers.

The Polysiloxanes

The Polysiloxanes
Author: James E. Mark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-03-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0190266457

Polysiloxanes are the most studied inorganic and semi-inorganic polymers because of their many medical and commercial uses. The Si-O backbone endows polysiloxanes with intriguing properties: the strength of the Si-O bond imparts considerable thermal stability, and the nature of the bonding imparts low surface free energy. Prostheses, artificial organs, objects for facial reconstruction, vitreous substitutes in the eyes, and tubing take advantage of the stability and pliability of polysiloxanes. Artificial skin, contact lenses, and drug delivery systems utilize their high permeability. Such biomedical applications have led to biocompatibility studies on the interactions of polysiloxanes with proteins, and there has been interest in modifying these materials to improve their suitability for general biomedical application. Polysiloxanes examines novel aspects of polysiloxane science and engineering, including properties, work in progress, and important unsolved problems. The volume, with ten comprehensive chapters, examines the history, preparation and analysis, synthesis, characterization, and applications of these polymeric materials.

Multiscale Structural Topology Optimization

Multiscale Structural Topology Optimization
Author: Liang Xia
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0081011865

Multiscale Structural Topology Optimization discusses the development of a multiscale design framework for topology optimization of multiscale nonlinear structures. With the intention to alleviate the heavy computational burden of the design framework, the authors present a POD-based adaptive surrogate model for the RVE solutions at the microscopic scale and make a step further towards the design of multiscale elastoviscoplastic structures. Various optimization methods for structural size, shape, and topology designs have been developed and widely employed in engineering applications. Topology optimization has been recognized as one of the most effective tools for least weight and performance design, especially in aeronautics and aerospace engineering. This book focuses on the simultaneous design of both macroscopic structure and microscopic materials. In this model, the material microstructures are optimized in response to the macroscopic solution, which results in the nonlinearity of the equilibrium problem of the interface of the two scales. The authors include a reduce database model from a set of numerical experiments in the space of effective strain. - Presents the first attempts towards topology optimization design of nonlinear highly heterogeneous structures - Helps with simultaneous design of the topologies of both macroscopic structure and microscopic materials - Helps with development of computer codes for the designs of nonlinear structures and of materials with extreme constitutive properties - Focuses on the simultaneous design of both macroscopic structure and microscopic materials - Includes a reduce database model from a set of numerical experiments in the space of effective strain

Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)

Proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)
Author: Warren Poole
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319481703

This book presents a collection of papers presented at the 3rd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), a specialty conference organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). This meeting convened ICME stakeholders to examine topics relevant to the global advancement of ICME as an engineering discipline. The papers presented in these proceedings are divided into six sections: (1) ICME Applications; (2) ICME Building Blocks; (3) ICME Success Stories and Applications (4) Integration of ICME Building Blocks: Multi-scale Modeling; (5) Modeling, Data and Infrastructure Tools, and (6) Process Optimization. . These papers are intended to further the global implementation of ICME, broaden the variety of applications to which ICME is applied, and ultimately help industry design and produce new materials more efficiently and effectively.

Stability of Materials

Stability of Materials
Author: A. Gonis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461303850

Engineering materials with desirable physical and technological properties requires understanding and predictive capability of materials behavior under varying external conditions, such as temperature and pressure. This immediately brings one face to face with the fundamental difficulty of establishing a connection between materials behavior at a microscopic level, where understanding is to be sought, and macroscopic behavior which needs to be predicted. Bridging the corresponding gap in length scales that separates the ends of this spectrum has been a goal intensely pursued by theoretical physicists, experimentalists, and metallurgists alike. Traditionally, the search for methods to bridge the length scale gap and to gain the needed predictive capability of materials properties has been conducted largely on a trial and error basis, guided by the skill of the metallurgist, large volumes of experimental data, and often ad hoc semi phenomenological models. This situation has persisted almost to this day, and it is only recently that significant changes have begun to take place. These changes have been brought about by a number of developments, some of long standing, others of more recent vintage.

Analysis of Material Removal Processes

Analysis of Material Removal Processes
Author: Warren R. DeVries
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461244080

Metal removal processes - cutting and grinding in this book - are an integral part of a large number of manufacturing systems, either as the primary manufacturing process, or as an important part of preparing the tooling for other manufacturing processes. In recent years, industry and educational institutions have concentrated on the metal removal system, perhaps at the expense of the process. This book concentrates on metal removal processes, particularly on the modeling aspects that can either give a direct answer or suggest the general requirements as to how to control, improve or change a metal removal process. This modeling knowledge is more important with automated computer controlled systems than it has ever been before, because quantitative knowledge is needed to design and operate these systems. This senior undergraduate/graduate textbook is aimed at providing the quantitative knowledge, often times at an elementary level, for handling the technological aspects of setting up and operating a metal removal process and interpreting the experience of planning, operating and improving a metal removal process based on rule of thumb approaches.

Computer Aided And Integrated Manufacturing Systems (A 5-volume Set) - Volume 4: Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing (Cad/cam)

Computer Aided And Integrated Manufacturing Systems (A 5-volume Set) - Volume 4: Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing (Cad/cam)
Author: Cornelius T Leondes
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2003-10-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9814486248

This is an invaluable five-volume reference on the very broad and highly significant subject of computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems. It is a set of distinctly titled and well-harmonized volumes by leading experts on the international scene.The techniques and technologies used in computer aided and integrated manufacturing systems have produced, and will no doubt continue to produce, major annual improvements in productivity, which is defined as the goods and services produced from each hour of work. This publication deals particularly with more effective utilization of labor and capital, especially information technology systems. Together the five volumes treat comprehensively the major techniques and technologies that are involved.