Objective Objectives and content Modern product development involves studies of the manufacturing process and product functionality in an early stage of the product development process. The simulations are needed in order to avoid many costly and time-consuming experimental studies of different product concepts. The ability to efficiently obtain the relevant material parameters in an analysis of an industrial process is of vital importance for the industrial use of these methods. The objective of the present project is to use non-linear finite element methods, optimisation methods and experiments to study the constitutive relations of materials involved in specific industrial product development processes. In order to be able to evaluate experiments which does not necessarily represent a material point, the concept of inverse modelling will be used. The essence of the inverse modelling technique is that the evaluated experiments do not need to be homogenous with respect to the stress and strain distribution in the sample, which creates the possibility to make the experiments less complicated and less expensive. The industrial processes that are the targets for this research project are primarily cold pressings of metal powder and thermo-mechanical loading of superalloys. The project includes work with material models, structural analysis methods, optimisation methods, and inverse modelling of non-linear structural problems and evaluation of relevant experiments. The main innovations expected in the project can be summarised as: An inverse modelling system for determining constitutive relations of metal powder and superalloys A method for exploring material responses that so far have not been possible to monitor Further advancements in the field of simulation techniques with respect to specific industrial applications. The project consortium consists of expertise in computational mechanics, material science, experimental mechanics as well as related industrial applications. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0202 - New methodologies for product design and manufacture Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator LULEAA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Address 971 87 Lulea Sweden See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all AALBORG UNIVERSITY Denmark EU contribution € 0,00 Address 16,fibigerstraede 16 9220 Aalborg See on map Höganäs AB Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 263 83 Högands See on map Rolls Royce PLC United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Pembroke street CB2 3QZ Cambridge See on map University of Cambridge United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Pembroke street CB2 3QZ Cambridge See on map
