The 15th World Conference on Titanium included papers on titanium alloy development, efforts to reduce Ti powder costs, additive manufacturing, and computational materials modeling tools. This article reviews some of the key advances reported at the conference.

Computer simulation is an important tool for medical device companies and designers to reduce expensive prototyping and testing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Device and Radiological Health (CRY) is seeing a growing number of submissions for medical devices that include a simulation-data component.

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is a relatively new discipline that shows great promise for reducing the cost and time required to design and deploy new materials, manufacturing technologies, and products. This article introduces an ICME implementation framework for product development using modeling of a friction stir welding process as an example.

Application of heat treat simulation using the finite element method is ideal to troubleshoot, improve, and design heat treating processes. This article presents examples of heat treating simulation used in the design of a tooling component and in refining a low-pressure carburizing process.

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Digital image correlation data and Bayesian inference used together facilitate rigorous quantification of the uncertainty in material input parameters for finite element simulations of superelastic deformation.

Engineers at the Ford Motor Co. are using integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) tools, allowing them to accurately simulate the heat treatment of gears and predict phase transformation kinetics and distortion.

Computer modeling is used in the design and development stages of induction hardening to optimize the process and to improve component quality including hardness, beneficial stress distributions, and reduced distortion.

Scientists and engineers working on behalf of the U.S. automotive industry are nearing completion of a multiyear effort to accelerate the incorporation of advanced high-strength steels in American-made cars and trucks. This article reports on work to develop and validate an integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) model optimized for third-generation advanced high-strength steels.

Computational thermodynamics and CALPHAD modeling prove useful for selecting and developing new magnesium alloys. This article summarizes an ongoing effort to establish a scientific foundation of computational thermodynamics and kinetics of magnesium alloys to achieve accelerated design and optimization of these alloys for weight reduction in the transportation industries.

Integrated computational materials engineering has proven effective in shrinking materials development timelines and accelerating the implementation of new materials in manufactured components. This article presents examples of aerospace alloys developed using ICME techniques and provides a glimpse of future applications.

This article discusses the thinking behind the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), the central role of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), the expected gains, and the prospects for success.

The evolution of carbon nanotube composites, as inspired by the Materials Genome Initiative, unlocks new potential for materials sustainability in challenging deep space applications. This article describes research and development work at the Institute for Ultra-Strong Composites by Computational Design (US-COMP), a NASA Space Technology Research Institute consortium. US-COMP has developed a novel composite material with mechanical properties per unit mass that exceed state-of-the-art structural composites.

Experimentally derived surface heat flux rate data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software are helping researchers more accurately simulate liquid quenching processes. This article describes an approach where surface heat flux rates are determined experimentally in a precisely controlled flow boiling test system. This data is then used to build CFD models that are proving to be quite accurate in quenching process simulations.

Highlights from a member survey and panel discussion outlining the challenges and benefits of advanced manufacturing for the materials community. The article covers research being conducted in academia and industry to develop and integrate advanced manufacturing techniques; methods for in-process monitoring and machine learning; and challenges in adopting new digital manufacturing technologies.

This article reports on outcomes from an additive manufacturing workshop that developed guidelines for AM data management to realize the promise of Materials 4.0 and achieve process qualification for AM parts.

The Materials Genome Initiative aims to enable discovery, manufacture, and deployment of advanced materials twice as fast as using traditional development methodologies, at a fraction of the cost. This article explores how semantic technologies address three of the key challenges outlined in the MGI Strategic Plan.

Using virtual tools to study aluminum cylinder head quenching processes delivers valuable information for process design and optimization. In this study, cooling curves and temperature gradients generated by air and water quench modeling methods were used to evaluate quenching performance for various quenching configurations.

Researchers at MIT have evaluated a wide range of helmet liner designs and materials for potential use in the U.S. Army's advanced combat helmet (ACH). To measure the effectiveness of candidate materials, the investigators rely on finite-element simulations that are validated by shock tube testing at Purdue University. Of the various filler materials examined, glass beads, glycerin, and water show the most promise for blast attenuation.

Modeling shows that achieving required gear performance in a reduced gear size is possible by changing the steel grade and heat treatment parameters during the design stage. This article describes work in which virtual computer models using DANTE software are applied to help achieve gear size reduction by including steel grade hardenability and heat treatment parameters in the design process.