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Towards integrative computational materials engineering of steel components

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This article outlines on-going activities at the RWTH Aachen University aiming at a standardized, modular, extendable and open simulation platform for materials processing. This platform on the one hand facilitates the information exchange between different simulation tools and thus strongly reduces the effort to design/re-design production processes. On the other hand, tracking of simulation results along the entire production chain provides new insights into mechanisms, which cannot be explained on the basis of individual simulations. Respective simulation chains provide e.g. the basis for the determination of materials and component properties, like e.g. distortions, for an improved product quality, for more efficient and more reliable production processes and many further aspects. After a short introduction to the platform concept, actual examples for different test case scenarios will be presented and discussed.

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Acknowledgments

The present article is based on on-going work of a consortium of the following institutes at the RWTH Aachen University: Foundry Institute (GI), Institute for Ferrous Metallurgy (IEHK), Welding and Joining Institute (ISF), Surface Engineering Institute (IOT), Institute for Metal Forming (IBF), Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV), Institute for Scientific Computing (SC), Department of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA), Institute for Textile Technology (ITA), Fraunhofer Institute for Lasertechnology (ILT/NLD) and ACCESS. Funding of the depicted research by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the frame of the Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production in High Wage Countries” is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Access e.V. at the RWTH Aachen, Intzestr. 5, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    G. J. Schmitz, S. Benke, G. Laschet & M. Apel

  2. Department of Ferrous Metallurgy, RWTH Aachen, Intzestr. 1, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    U. Prahl, P. Fayek, S. Konovalov, J. Rudnizki & H. Quade

  3. Foundry Institute, RWTH Aachen, Intzestr. 5, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    S. Freyberger

  4. Institute of Metal Forming, RWTH Aachen, Intzestr. 10, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    T. Henke & M. Bambach

  5. Welding and Joining Institute, RWTH Aachen, Pontstr. 49, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    E. A. Rossiter

  6. Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, Steinbachstr. 14, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    U. Jansen & U. Eppelt

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Schmitz, G.J., Benke, S., Laschet, G. et al. Towards integrative computational materials engineering of steel components. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 5, 373–382 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-011-0322-1

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