The mission of H2020 COMPOSELECTOR project is to develop a Business Decision Support System (BDSS) to support the complex decision process involved in the selection and design of polymer-matrix composites (PMCs).
This is achieved by means of an open integration platform that enables interoperability and information management of materials models and data and connects a rich ‘materials modeling layer’ with industry-standard business process models.
The specific Scientific and Technological objectives of the project are defined and summarised as follows:
Objective I: Tailored Knowledge Apps to support decision-makers: Typically, the tools will need to be presented in web-based and mobile environments. To meet this objective, COMPOSELECTOR builds ‘Apps’ that can support and guide their managerial decision situations. The support and guidance will be strengthened by advanced analytics tools, presenting integrated knowledge from materials modeling, business tools, and databases.
Objective II: Provide actionable choices: COMPOSELECTOR has a strong focus on the integration and innovative development of a Multi-Disciplinary Optimization (MDO) framework, which will allow for time, resources, and costs saving while increasing performance and functionality.
Objective III: Integrated Materials and Process Modelling: COMPOSELECTOR will develop innovative methodologies to connect existing and future models and how to use them in varying contexts. This will be achieved by: 1- Enriching an integrated materials and manufacturing process modeling framework with metadata schema and semantic interoperability, 2- Methodologies for KPI-driven property calculations, and 3- Implementation of model selection and model adaptivity.
Objective IV: Integration and analytics of structured and unstructured data. COMPOSELECTOR aims at developing a coherent and comprehensive PMCs database and information management system that integrates the materials models with structured and unstructured data from multiple databases containing materials data, commercial data, and information on market trends, pricing, customer needs, and demands.
Objective V: A BDSS validated by Decision Makers: An easy-to-use, cooperative, and inter-disciplinary decision support and selection platform for PMCs that has been tested and validated towards applications in the aerospace sector.
The delivered product of the project is a software system for the reliable selection of composite materials considering multi-scale and multi-field coupled interactions. The pre-existing commercial software tools will represent the starting point for the implementation. The pre-existing software codes will be further developed and integrated during the project with the objective to obtain a mature software system that can be used in an operational context. The project is industry-driven thanks to the significant involvement of the industrial partners. As a consequence, the project will be led by specific industrial needs. This guarantees a stable foundation and reduces the risk of development activities. It also ensures cost-effectiveness because the project will maximally use pre-existing technologies.
