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1. Material Engineering Using Concepts of Modularization in Integrated Circuit Design

   Entry #111

   10 Oct 2015

   10:56 am

   Sheldon X. Wang

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   With respect to material design, in particular, smart material design with specific functionalities, we may be able to learn something from our peers in electrical engineering. In integrated circuits (IC), we have up to one billion basic units such as capacitors, inductors, and resistors....

2. IACMI Indiana Starts Hiring

   Entry #99

   16 Jun 2015

   6:51 am

   cdmHUB Purdue

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   Purdue University is developing the composite virtual factory HUB (cvfHUB), a cutting-edge Cyber infrastructure platform for delivering integrated and validated commercial software tools to the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI). This platform provides predictive...

3. Online Composites Community of the Future

   Entry #88

   14 Nov 2014

   12:50 pm

   Wenbin Yu

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   Imagine a place you can find all the computer tools for composites simulation including comprehensive commercial codes and research codes written by graduate students for their theses. Imagine a youtube-like environment for you to deploy a cloud version of your code without any change to your...

4. cdmHUB Concept Has Enormous Potential

   Entry #84

   09 Oct 2014

   12:25 am

   Toby Kim Parnell

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   The CDMHub concept has tremendous potential to provide integration and consistency in all phases of composite materials manufacture, testing, and simulation. This is truly one of those ideas "whose time has come".  With the advent of cloud computing resources like Rescale that can...

5. Micromechanics Challenge

   Entry #81

   19 Sep 2014

   1:23 pm

   cdmHUB Purdue

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   In cooperation with academia, industry and commercial software providers, the Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB is pleased to announce the Micromechanics Simulation Challenge. The problems in Level 1 of the simulation challenge may be found here . Additionally, stp and iges files of the...

6. RVE Acceptable Size to be Counted as Micro

   Entry #67

   27 Jul 2014

   7:47 am

   Farzad

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   Just a general question about Homogenization , when we are selecting the RVE , how much should it be smaller than the Macro dimensions of the model , to be counted micro , I mean only that one part of the model is being repeated is enough to define the periodicity or it should be very smaller in...

7. What is a Composite Material, Exactly?

   Entry #66

   25 Jul 2014

   4:13 pm

   Wenbin Yu

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   We are so familiiar with composites that we almost forget what it is. Some say a composite material is a material which is anisotropic and heterogeneous. First, I would like to argue that anisotropy cannot be used to define composites although composites are usually anisotropic. We do have...

8. Structures vs Materials

   Entry #39

   31 May 2014

   4:23 pm

   Wenbin Yu

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   Structures and materials often appear together and sometimes even used interchangeably. The main reason is that the boundary between structures and materials is not clear. Even our first solid mechanics course usually called either strength of materials or mechanics of materials  is...