Book description
Presenting the results of an ambitious project, this book summarizes
the efforts towards an open, web-based modular and extendable simulation
platform for materials engineering that allows simulations bridging
several length scales. In so doing, it covers processes along the entire
value chain and even describes such different classes of materials as
metallic alloys and polymers. It comprehensively describes all
structural ideas, the underlying concepts, standard specifications, the
verification results obtained for different test cases and additionally
how to utilize the platform as a user and how to join it as a provider.
A resource for researchers, users and simulation software providers
alike, the monograph provides an overview of the current status, serves
as a generic manual for prospective users, and offers insights into the
inner modular structure of the simulation platform.
Georg J. Schmitz earned his PhD in Materials Science in 1991 from
RWTH Aachen University in the area of microstructure control in high
temperature superconductors. At present he is senior scientist at ACCESS
e. V., a private, non-profit research centre at the RWTH Aachen
University. His research interests comprise microstructure formation in
multi-component alloys, modeling of solidification phenomena,
phase-field models and thermodynamics. He is the official agent for
Thermo-Calc Software AB in Germany and provides global support for
MICRESS?. At the RWTH Aachen University he coordinates an
interdisciplinary team working on the subject of this book. Dr. Schmitz
has been appointed as expert evaluator by the European Commission and
acted as assessor for the Australian Research Council and the Royal
Society, London. He is active member of the TMS committee on ICME,
referee for several international journals and associate editor of
Materials Transactions. Dr. Schmitz has published more than 100
scientific articles and filed 14 patents.
Ulrich Prahl received his PhD in Engineering Sciences in 2002 from RWTH
Aachen University on the area of damage and failure prediction of
high-strength fine grain pipeline steels. This work has been performed
in the framework of the joined program 'Integrative Material Modelling'
which aimed the development of materials models on various length
scales. Since 2002 he is working as senior scientist at the department
of ferrous metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University where he is heading the
scientific working group 'Material Simulation'. Dr. Prahl is
vice-coordinator in the AixViPMaP project which aims the definition of a
modular integrative platform for the modelling of material processes on
various length scales along the entire process chain. He has published
more than 70 scientific articles.
