Accession Number:

ADA330910

Title:

Work Unit Directive (WUD54) Amendment - Materials Process Design

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Oct 95-Oct 96

Corporate Author:

WRIGHT LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH MATERIALS DIRECTORATE

Personal Author(s):

• LeClair, S. R.
• Jackson, A.

Report Date:

1996-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

128.0

Abstract:

The focus of materials process design research is to establish theories and scientific methods for in situ self improvement of the design and control of material processing using self-directed computer aided systems. The specific objectives are to 1 generate new methods and knowledge relative to the design process, 2 integrate, synthesize and generalize new knowledge in the form of axioms, and 3 automatically incorporate this new knowledge for use in improving materials research and process control metrics i.e., quality, time and cost. Long term the objective is to develop a language, principled in theories, for the development of virtual material processing systems and integrated, intelligent manufacturing systems across a Materials and Processing Information Highway.

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
• *COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING
• *AUTOMATA
• NEURAL NETS
• OPTIMIZATION
• CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION
• PRODUCTION CONTROL
• PATTERN RECOGNITION
• CONTROL THEORY
• DESIGN CRITERIA
• MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY
• FUZZY LOGIC

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE