Modeling & Simulation (Page 5)

Manufacturing strategies in the 21st century are driven by the need to bring new and differentiated products to market at increasingly accelerated rates. Newer designs, application of advanced materials, and reduced development times propel manufacturers to employ innovative approaches for characterizing performance. To this end, integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), an analytical framework used to...

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) uses analytical and numerical tools to create predictive models. Recently, EWI has published a series of papers examining analytical methods that work well in assessing thermal/mechanical responses in specific joining processes. Some highly complex joining applications, however, require advanced computational tools such as finite element analysis (FEA) to achieve desired...

EWI has recently developed a new technique to obtain improved accuracy in material flow stress for modeling metal forming processes. The method uses the hydraulic bulge test (HBT) and digital image correlation (DIC) analysis and applies the plastic work equivalency principle to determine an optimal arc length for the for calculation of a biaxial flow...