Developing the methods of modeling heterogeneous components

Author: Ke-Zhang Chen   Xin-An Feng  

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

ISSN: 0957-6061

Source: Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol.14, Iss.7, 2003-09, pp. : 586-592

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Abstract

In order to represent, analyze, optimize, and manufacture a component made of multi-heterogeneous materials for high-tech applications, a computer model of the heterogeneous component needs to be built first. Heterogeneous materials include composite, functionally graded materials, and heterogeneous materials with a periodic microstructure. Current modeling techniques focus only on capturing the geometric information and cannot satisfy the requirements from modeling the components made of multi-heterogeneous materials. This paper develops a modeling method, which can be implemented by employing the functions of current CAD graphic software and can obtain the model including both the material information (about its microstructures and constituent composition) and the geometry information without the problems arising from too many data.