Making the Case for a Model-Based Definition of Engineering Materials (Postprint)
Abstract
For over 100 years, designers of aerospace components have used simple requirement-based material and process specifications. The associated standards, product control documents, and testing data provided a certifiable material definition, so as to minimize risk and simplify procurement of materials during the design, manufacture, and operation of engineered systems, such as aerospace platforms. These material definition tools have been assembled to ensure components meet design definitions and design intent. They must ensure the material used meets equivalency to that used in the design process. Although remarkably effective, such traditional materials definitions are increasingly becoming the limiting challenge for materials, design, and manufacturing engineers supporting modern, model-based engineering. Demands for cost-effective, higher performance aerospace systems are driving new approaches for multi-disciplinary design optimization methods that are not easily supportable via traditional representations of materials information.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 12, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1040768
Entities
People
- C.H. Ward
- David Furrer
- Dennis M. Dimiduk
- James D. Cotton
Organizations
- Pratt & Whitney