Keywords, machine extracted. Top 50 words repeated twice, next 100 once, plus phrases. The selection of the proper materials for a structural component is critical to engineering design. Existing design procedures may currently be sufficient, especially where experience exists, but fierce industrial competition is spurring the search for improved methods and tools. Improved design efficiency and accuracy may have an enormous impact on the economic viability of the final product.
Materials selection is governed by ninny factors, some of which are often in opposition.
Advanced computer technologies would also malice it feasible to archive design experience as cases in a corporate knowledge base for subsequent re-use, tailoring, and evolution. For instance, designers could be provided with a range of possible materials and manufacturing methods for a proposed part, based on a given set of characteristics and cost-performance critena. Computing technology is no longer a barrier to the development of computer-aided systems for materials selection. Since then, computer speeds have dramatically increased. Accurate modeling and simulation of a unit process is currently becoming the norm.