Integrated Computational Materials Engineering A Transformational Discipline for Improved Competitiveness and National Security (2008) / Chapter Skim
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For decades, the development of advanced materials and their incorporation into the design of new products enabled the United States to maintain a significant competitive advantage in the global economy. Modern computational engineering tools generally have radically reduced the time required to optimize new products.
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Nevertheless, ICME shows significant potential for reduc ing component design and process development costs and cycle times, lowering manufacturing costs, improving the prognosis for material and component life, and, ultimately, allowing for agile response to changing market demands. But for ICME to succeed, three things must happen: • ICME must be embraced as a discipline in the materials science and engi neering community, leading to changes in education, research, and infor mation sharing.
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To efficiently create and utilize accurate and quantitative ICME tools, engineers must have easy access to relevant, high-quality data from experimentation and computation. Currently there is much waste in the R&D and engineering system, where materials data are frequently generated and then routinely lost, necessitating redevelopment.
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should build on its success in creating robust computational materials science tools for predicting the long-term behavior of nuclear weapons systems by inte grating them into an ICME system and then extending that system when the chance arises to other suitable materials. In the process, the NNSA should critically assess integration issues and establish best practices for the dissemination of ICME tools to the defense and commercial sectors for further application and validation.
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should expand its leadership role as an early champion of ICME and establish a long-range coordinated ICME program that will accomplish the following: • Identify and pursue at least one key foundational engineering problem in each service to accelerate the development and application of ICME to critical defense platforms and • Develop an ICME infrastructure of precompetitive material process– structure–property tools and databases for defense-critical systems. In addition, DOD should establish an intra-agency ICME coordination group to champion development of ICME within the military and the defense industry.
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Recommendation 8: The University Materials Council (UMC) , with sup port from materials professional societies and the National Science Founda tion, should develop a model for incorporating ICME modules into a broad spectrum of materials science and engineering courses.
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And graduating materials science and engineering students will be employed and operate in a multidisciplinary and computationally rich engineering environment.
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