| ICME Community on Materials Technology@TMS |
By Cathy Rohrer and Todd Osman, Materials Technology@TMS Moderators
 "At its core, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) involves the development of materials models that quantitatively describe processing-structure-property relationships for use by the engineering community. The development of processing-structure-property relationships, as depicted in Figure 1, has been a unifying paradigm in the field of materials science and engineering since its inception. However, this important paradigm has not yet produced an effective computational engineering tool comparable to those used by mechanical engineers to analyze heat transfer, fluid flow, and structural mechanics. In no small part, this is due to the profound complexity and breadth of issues that must be addressed in the engineering of materials. We postulate, however, that the lack of a computational tool for materials engineering has been largely due to a culture within the materials profession that has focused on digging deeply to understand isolated phenomena such as solidification or fatigue behavior (so called knowledge "nodes") at the expense of the linkages between the knowledge nodes. The focus of ICME is on developing these linkages, building quantitative models and databases that populate the knowledge base, and exercising the resulting system to solve materials development and application problems."1
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Figure 1. An example of key processing-structure-property linkages for forged nickel-based superalloys.1 |
Over a five-month period in 2005, an 18-person ad hoc advisory group, consisting of representatives from key TMS technical committees and specialists from industry, academia, and government collected information on current efforts in integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), provided their own insights on problems and challenges, and developed a set of recommendations and associated action items for consideration by the TMS Board of Directors. At the TMS 2006 Annual Meeting, the board of directors commissioned the current ICME Technical Coordination Group (TCG). In particular, the group has been charged to:- Develop an integrated three-year plan for information dissemination on ICME
- Become the professional home for the ICME community
- Facilitate educational development in ICME
- Facilitate technical development of ICME
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