Accession Number:
ADA459263
Title:
Virtual Design and Testing of Materials: A Multiscale Approach
Descriptive Note:
Final rept., 15 May 1998-30 Jun 2006
Corporate Author:
BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI DIV OF ENGINEERING
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
2006-06-30
Pagination or Media Count:
14.0
Abstract:
The aim of the work proposed here is the development of a virtual testing and design capability that can be used to test -- and suggest design strategies for -- new advanced structural materials. Our main objective is thus to develop a hierarchy of methods involving both seamless coupling of information from different scales electronic to atomic atomic to microstructural micro- to macrostructural and information transfer from one level of hierarchy to the next. As a secondary objective, each methodological advance will also be used to investigate specific phenomena at a single scale. The overall outcome of our work will be a coherent set of computational tools and advances in fundamental understanding of many issues in the thermomechanical performance of materials.
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Subject Categories:
- Miscellaneous Materials
- Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods