Intelligent decision support for polymer composite material design in an integrated design environment
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Previously used routine design systems which generate multiple designs for composite materials have had a strong focus on thermosets. A natural evolution of the material designer involved an expansion of the domain knowledge for possible composite material designs, as well as a re-engineering of the problem-solving structure. This was guided by an in-depth analysis of the existing material designer. The results of these analyses enabled decisions to be made regarding the adequacy of the existing problem-solving structure and identified avenues to pursue for the re-engineering of the knowledge structuring and decision processes. This reengineering and expansion to a third generation of the material designer has been completed. The third generation material designer, COMADE (Composite Material Designer), now includes an expanded thermoset and fiber material coverage; in addition, thermoplastics and discontinuous fibers have been introduced into the knowledge base. As a result, both the variables input to the system and the outputted material designs have been modified. The inclusion of this information has substantially increased the domain coverage of possible composite material designs.
- OSTI ID:
- 89847
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9409291-; ISBN 1-56676-220-0; TRN: IM9536%%277
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. technical conference of the American Society for Composites, Newark, DE (United States), 20-22 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the American Society for Composites: Ninth technical conference; PB: 1319 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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