Presented By: Integrative Systems + Design
Smart Manufacturing through Virtual Material Processing
Miki Banu, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Smart manufacturing enables faster, more efficient production and improved worker safety while also enhancing market competitiveness. To remain economically viable, manufacturers must reduce their leading time while lowering costs and raising efficiency. Modeling and simulation are used currently to increase manufacturing efficiency as well as to improve the way products are designed. For example, finite element models are widely used for designing parts and for predicting defects. However, the technological future is challenged by a multitude of materials-related phenomena whose essential role often extends over many scales in time and space. That is why traditional modeling is being replaced by multiscale modeling, which has become a paradigm shift in understanding the way we design functionalities of a product. Multiscale material modeling enables the prediction of the relations between structure, processing and properties of complex materials. Multiscale modeling of materials enables the design of materials that have specified properties and performance needed for specific parts. It allows the simulation not only of the material, but also of the processing of those materials, and provides online answers of the structure - property relations during manufacturing. In this presentation the focus will be on integrated simulations of molecular dynamics and finite elements to bridge time and space scales in modeling materials exposed to complex stress, strain and thermal states, or complex large deformations. Two case studies of using such multiscale modeling will be presented, namely ultrasonic welding and micro-deep drawing.
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