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Integrating Materials Data Management

into Design Optimization & Simulation

Dan Williams - Product Manager

8 November 2011

What’s so important about materials?

...a crucial input to FEA calculations

• “Garbage in, Garbage out”

• Increased confidence in properties -> design closer to limits

...an opportunity for optimization

• Increase performance per unit mass / volume

• Address cost or environmental objectives without compromising performance

...the missing link between design and manufacturability

• Can we source it and afford it?

• Is there an equivalent in Country X?

• Is there an alternative if our supply is disrupted?

... so we need materials information in design

Materials are...

What’s so complicated about materials data?

What’s so complicated about materials data?

What’s so complicated about materials data?

Industry Collaborations since 2002

AWE Boeing

Honeywell Aerospace

GE - Aviation

GE - Energy

Lockheed Martin

Los Alamos Nat Labs

NASA

Northrop Grumman

Oak Ridge Nat Labs

Raytheon

Rolls-Royce

Sandia Nat Labs

US Navy

US Army Research Labs

Lockheed Martin

NASA

NPL

Rolls-Royce

Thales

US Army Res. Labs

Boeing

EADS Astrium Satellites

Emerson Electric

Eurocopter

Honeywell

Moen

NASA

Rhodia

Sulzer

TRW Automotive

Baker Hughes

DePuy

Emerson Electric

Ethicon Endosurgery

Materials lifecycle – best practice

MAINTAIN

• Capture & maintain context

• Change management

• Security / access control…

ANALYZE

• Process test data

• Create approved models for FEA

• Forensic analysis

• Statistical process control

• …

CAPTURE

The importance of pedigree

The design strength is definitely 56MPa.

But what exactly did we test?

?

Traceability of composites data

Source: Warde S., Marsden W., ‘Data Management for Composite Materials’ (2010)

www.grantadesign.com/papers/

Glass fibre filled materials

Material Optimization requires data!

Source: CES Selector 2012 Software

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New materials and traditional competition

Source: CES Selector 2012 Software

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Traditional Approach

RADIOSS

RADIOSS

RADIOSS

RADIOSS Manual, infrequent

publishing

CAE Community

RADIOSS

RADIOSS

a

Static cards available on server

Materials Group

‘Material files’

• Islands of data

• Manual, infrequent updates

• Error-prone and slow

• Limited opportunities for material optimization

Granta approach

CAE Community Materials Group

Request a material and model

Get the latest data

Materials Database

One system for all materials data

Direct import or file export

RADIOSS

Tools to support optimization, eco-

design, etc.

• Mechanical, physical, thermal, electrical...

• Price, availability, eco impact...

• Risk of obsolescence...

• Controlled, up-to-date, globally accessible

Integration Workflow

HyperForm

RADIOSS

OPTION 1: file output

CAE Pre & Post (e.g. HyperMesh)

OPTION 2: direct integration

Solvers & Specialist Tools (e.g. RADIOSS, HyperForm)

In house, test & reference

Example RADIOSS export

Integration example

• Materials are an opportunity for optimization

• Data is often multidimensional and history-specific

• Pedigree and traceability is vital for forensic analysis

• CAD, CAE and PLM users need an on-demand “gold

source” managed materials system

• Materials information can be integrated at the heart of

design and optimization

Concluding thoughts

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Any questions?

Thank You

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