The combination of light metals (aluminum, magnesium and titanium) and innovative casting
processes provides cost-effective technologies to produce lightweight components and …

The combination of multiple-principal element materials, known as high-entropy materials
(HEMs), expands the multi-dimensional compositional space to gigantic stoichiometry. It is …

Reducing the weight of automobiles is a major contributor to increased fuel economy. The
baseline materials for vehicle construction, low-carbon steel and cast iron, are being …

Transportation accounts for approximately 28% of US energy consumption with the majority
of transportation energy derived from petroleum sources. Many technologies such as vehicle …

A bottom‐up, multiscale modeling approach is presented to carry out high‐fidelity virtual
mechanical tests of composite materials and structures. The strategy begins with the in situ …

An open-source parallel 3-D crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) software package
PRISMS-Plasticity is presented here as a part of PRISMS integrated framework. A highly …

Emphasising essential methods and universal principles, this textbook provides everything
students need to understand the basics of simulating materials behaviour. All the key topics …

Unavoidable issues of micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coated Al alloys are the micro-defects and
residual stress generation. Some scientists have reported the effects of micro-defects and …

This paper reviews the current state of the art in the simulation of the mechanical behavior of
polycrystalline materials by means of computational homogenization. The key ingredients of …

Casting aluminum (Al) alloys have been widely used in the automotive industry to improve
fuel economy as well as to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the vehicle use …