ICMEg - 1
1st
International Workshop on Software Solutions for
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering - ICME
- by
its nature draws on the combination and
the simultaneous or consecutive use of a variety of software tools. This workshop shall convene academic and commercial
software providers as well as industrial and scientific users of ICME type simulation
approaches. The workshop represents the first step towards defining a global
and open standard for information exchange between the huge and heterogeneous variety
of state of the art models. It is thus also particularly suited for young
scientist and engineers seeking a thematically structured overview of modern simulation
tools.
By now the major developments in the area of ICME have
successfully been driven essentially by academic and industrial users of
simulation software:
In
spite of ICME currently emerging as a new and powerful discipline, coupling of
different software tools is however
still
in its infancy and represents an issue consuming significant effort in terms of time and workforce if
a coupling is realized at all. ICMEg – the Integrated
Computational Materials Engineering expert group – a coordination activity of
the European Commission acting as organizer of the workshop aims at developing
a global open standard for information exchange between the heterogeneous
varieties of numerous simulation tools. Once being established, such an open
and easily accessible formulation of a
global standard will:
·
significantly facilitate the exchange of
data between different tools
·
create new options and functionalities
of the present tools
·
allow for easy integration between
commercial and academic approaches and models
·
provide the pathway for life-cycle
modeling of components/products
·
allow for global optimisation
of process chains instead of individually optimized models
·
stimulate many further new developments
Scopes of this first ICMEg
workshop are:
·
to
convene and to network software providers/developers – both commercial and
academic – being interested in providing their solutions to the growing ICME
community
·
to
create awareness about solutions and models presently being available along all
processing steps and across all scales
·
to
generate a comprehensive overview and a thematically structured inventory of
such software solutions
·
to
identify options emerging for individual codes by coupling them to other
models/tools
·
to identify
needs for model functionalities up-stream the process chains on the basis of
requirements by models downstream the value chain
·
to
discuss necessary steps to create a global and open standard for information
exchange between different models/tools
·
to
outline a first concept for such a standard
The workshop will especially provide
cross sectional sessions promoting the interaction, networking and discussion
between different areas such as:
·
Process Modelling meets Numerical Methods
·
Microstructure meets Thermodynamics
·
Thermodynamics meets discrete models
·
Microstructure meets Process modelling
·
Microstructure meets discrete models
·
Process modelling meets Thermodynamics
·
…..
You are cordially invited to submit abstracts for contributions, which should
particularly emphasize options and needs for interaction with other models at
the same scale and/or across the scales,