%0 Journal Article
%T An ICME Approach for Optimizing Thin-Welded Structure Design
%A Guoqing Gou
%A Yuping Yang
%A Hui Chen
%J Engineering
%P 936-947
%@ 1947-394X
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/eng.2014.613085
%X Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is an emerging discipline that can speed up product development by unifying material, design, fabrication, and computational power in a virtual environment. Developing and adapting ICME in industries is a grand challenge technically and culturally. To help develop a strategy for development of this new technology area, an ICME approach was proposed and implemented in optimizing thin welded structure design. The key component in this approach is a database which includes material properties, static strength, impact strength, and failure parameters for a weld. The heat source models, microstructure model, and thermo-mechanical model involved in ICME for welding simulation were discussed. The shell elements representing method for a fusion weld were introduced in details for a butt joint, lap joint, and a Tee joint. Using one or multiple solid elements representing a spot weld in a shell model was also discussed. Database building methods for resistance spot welding and fusion welding have been developed.
%K Welding
%K Finite Element Analysis
%K Modeling and Simulation
%K ICME
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52326