Towards integrated computational materials engineering SUSTAINABILITY QUALITY ICME MATERIALS Double the pace of your innovation with the first simulated R&D solution to virtualize your whole production line. 10x is setting the standard for ICME with the strongest solution ecosystem in the world. It’s unique methodology blends academic research, cutting edge software and physics to help engineers tackle challenges and create new opportunities. www.e-xstream.com/ICMEebook 2 | Engineering Reality Magazine Roger Assaker, CEO MSC Software Greetings readers. As many of you may know, Paolo Guglielmini...

Driving elevator design through simulation Airbus: Virtual testing of high lift systems Ford: Ford develops an innovative suspension design using Adams Sridhara Dharmarajran: Integrating connectivity with smarter engineering in the automotive industry BAIC: How BAIC optimized car-body damping by simulation Leica: Seeing into the future to develop the world’s leading reality capture devices Sovitec: Professor Pedro Camanho: Virtual design & test of composites Q&A Sovitec reduced parts costs by 20% in glass bead based production Philippe Hebert and Anthony Cheruet: 3D printing polymer parts with...

You have a very wide and prominent international career over the years working with many world-renowned organizations and projects; what do you see as your special areas of technical expertise? Virtual design & test of composites Q&A Prof. Pedro Camanho, Univ of Porto, Portugal Engineering Reality Magazine recently interviewed Professor Pedro Camanho from the Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. Pedro received his PhD in Composite Materials from the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College in London before returning to his native Portugal to continue his research...

lightweighting and strength benefits. And now with the demands of sustainability in the modern world and concerns over CO 2 emissions in transport, composites are being adopted widely in the aerospace industry to make aircraft lighter and fly further on the same tank of fuel. This leads to a lower carbon footprint for each aircraft. The Airbus A350 in Europe is leading the way with its adoption of composites. About 53% of its structure is composites including most of the wings and fuselage including the center wing box, keel beam, tail cone, skin panels, frames, stringers and doublers, as well...

Sovitec is a Belgium-based world leader in the production of glass beads for surface finishes, road markings, coatings and engineered plastics. The company was interested in replacing an existing glass fiber reinforcement technology by a solution based on glass beads. Moreover, they wanted the new solution to provide equal or improved material performance while reducing the overall cost of material production. After examining several options, they decided to use the Digimat simulation software suite to model the micro and macro materials of their respective glass products to come up with an optimal...

Another requirement in the simulation of advanced materials is an end-to-end simulation tool for multi-phase material simulation (such as Digimat-FE). Based on material inputs and a microstructure definition, a finite element model can be built and run in Digimat-FE. The results of the finite element analysis simulation can then be post-processed in the form of probabilistic distribution functions that give detailed insight into the Representative Volume Element (RVE). Mean homogenized values can then be computed and used in subsequent FE analysis at a macroscale structural part level for instance...

oriented in an upright manner and another where the bracket is lying flat on the build plate. What we clearly want to achieve is a multivariable design optimization smart decision that also combines different factors such as print time, the part’s weight, its dimension tolerance, and its stiffness and strength. This Additive Manufacturing solution can be represented by the ‘wheel’ graphic above and is a combination of part geometry manipulation, topology optimization, Additive Manufacturing machine and material selection, process optimization by virtual simulation, first-time-right part production,...

About ICME and multiscale modeling ICME: From academia to industry The ICME acronym stands for “Integrated Computational Materials Engineering”, and is a modeling chain which links a manufacturing process, a material’s microstructure, its engineering properties and the performance of products made with it. Dr. Roger Assaker lays out his “10x” vision on how ICME can be deployed across industries in order to help design better products in an optimized and cost-effective way. In the present text, I will briefly describe the multiscale approach, which is the cornerstone of ICME and enables to link...

Any material is heterogeneous if the scale of observation is fine enough (e.g., that of molecules or atoms). However, engineering materials are used in solids or structures at a macroscopic scale, which can range from a few millimeters to several meters. At that scale, we can consider materials to be homogeneous (over the whole structure or in subparts) and use continuum mechanics to solve a boundary value problem with appropriate numerical techniques, typically by finite element analyses (FEA). However, a material which is considered as homogeneous at a macro scale might still be heterogeneous...

Trans-Continental Australian Outback world solar car CFD challenges For over 30 years, the biennial sustainable transportation related Bridgestone World Solar Challenge has attracted some of the greatest minds at high schools and universities from around the world to Australia to push the limits of technological innovation and travel the Outback in a vehicle powered only by the energy of the sun. The course traverses 3,000km from Darwin to Adelaide. 20 | Engineering Reality Magazine The race is based on the simple notion that a 1000W car should be able to complete the journey in 50 hours without...