Development and industrial application of integrated computational materials engineering

Materials and manufacturing engineering are continuing to advance in part to computational materials and process modeling and associated linkages with associated interdisciplinary efforts across all engineering, manufacturing, and quality disciplines. Computational modeling has enabled virtual processing, prediction and assessment of potential new materials and manufacturing processes, without or with limited need to perform costly and time-consuming physical trials. Development and integration of computational materials and process engineering requires a number of seemingly disparate critical technical elements, making this evolving computational capability very complicated. Accurate and validated models are supporting rapid material, process, and component development, and additionally qualification and certification of new final products through integrated computational materials engineering (ICME). These capabilities are driving further industrial utilization of computational material and process modeling with formalized linkages and integration within multidisciplinary engineering workflows. Past utilization, present applications and potential future development activities indicate that industry has now fully embraced the tools and methods, and overarching engineering framework of ICME.