Computer-aided material selection

Rubacams is a computer aided materials selection routine for elastomeric materials. Covering 99 generic types of rubber, each material is cross referenced with over 190 chemical agents and materials property data including physical, chemical mechanical and process related properties. Search results... 

Gotzmann [60] discusses methods used in the manufacture of metal plastic hybrid components such as glass fibre reinforced PA around a steel or aluminium profile placed in the mould used for injection moulding plastics. Some applications of such components were examined, and computer aided materials selection, finite element analysis and computer simulation systems developed for use in this technology are described. 

Cebon, D. and Ashby, M.F. (1992). Computer aided materials selection for mechanical design. Metals and Materials, 25, January, 9. 

V. Weiss, Computer-aided materials selection, in ASM Metals Handbook, Vol. 20, Materials Selection and Design, ASM, Materials Park, OH, 1997, pp. 309-314. 

CAMPUS, Computer Aided Material Pre-Selection By Uniform Standards, BASF,... 

The development of computational chemistry software and techniques, coupled with the increasing speed and decreasing costs of computing machinery, has transformed computer-aided material design, particularly drug design. The calculation of many chemical descriptors for almost any kind of molecule is now a trivial problem. Variable selection, however, is not trivial and becomes necessary when a dataset contains many variables. What constitutes as many depends both on the use that will be made of the data by the scientist and the ratio of data points (cases) to variables. 

Shea, C., Reynolds, C. and Dewhurst, P. (1989) Computer aided material and process selection. Proc. 4th Int. Conf on Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Rhode Island, USA, June. 

L. Olsson, U. Bengston, and H. Fischmeister, Gomputer-aided materials selection, in Computers in Materials Technology, T. Ericcson (Ed.), Pergamon, Oxford, 1981, pp. 17-25. 

The considerable development in computer technology in recent years has provided an additional aid to material selection. This is considered further in the next section. 

Digital Material is a new and special type of Composite Material, produced during the printing process by the selective deposition of different UV curable materials, from different inkjet nozzles, and according to a predefined Composite Material phase structure. This phase structure is design by Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software. 

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