Architecting Robust Co-Design of Materials, Products, and Manufacturing Processes

This book explores systems-based, co-design, introducing a “Decision-Based, Co-Design” (DBCD) approach for the co-design of materials, products, and processes.

In recent years there have been significant advances in modeling and simulation of material behavior, from the smallest atomic scale to the macro scale. However, the uncertainties associated with these approaches and models across different scales need to be addressed to enable decision-making resulting in designs that are robust, that is, relatively insensitive to uncertainties. An approach that facilitates co-design is needed across material, product design and manufacturing processes. This book describes a cloud-based platform to support decisions in the design of engineered systems (CB-PDSIDES), which feature an architecture that promotes co-design through the servitization of decision-making, knowledge capture and use templates that allow previous solutions to be reused. Placing the platform in the cloud aids masscollaboration and open innovation.

A valuable reference resource reference on all areas related to the design of materials, products and processes, the book appeals to material scientists, design engineers and all those involved in the emerging interdisciplinary field of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME).

Frame of Reference: Integrated Design of Materials, products, and associated manufacturing processes.- Literature Review: Integrated Materials, Products and Process Design Current Trends and Practices.- Design Foundations: State of the Art in Decision-Based Design, Robust Design Approaches, and Platform for Decision Support.- Integrated Realization of Engineered Materials and Products – Design of Steel Manufacturing Process Chain.- Goal-Orientated, Inverse Design Method: The Horizontal Integration of a Multi-Stage Hot Rod Rolling System.- Integrated Design Exploration of Materials, Products and Manufacturing Processes using Goal-Orientated Inverse Design Method.- Robust Concept Exploration of Materials, Products and Associated Manufacturing Processes.- PDSIDES: A Knowledge-Based Platform for Decision Support in the Design of Engineering Systems.- Advancing the Vision for the Systems-Based Design Architecture via a Cloud-Based Platform for Decision Support in the Design of EngineeredSystems (CB-PDSIDES).