Southern Regional Center for Lightweight Innovative Design SRCLID SemiAnnual Review Meeting April 18

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Southern Regional Center for Lightweight
Innovative Design (SRCLID)Semi-Annual Review
MeetingApril 18, 2007

• Prime Recipient Center for Advanced Vehicular
  Systems
• Agreement Number ( DE-FC-26-06NT42755)
• MSU Principal Managers Mark Horstemeyer, Paul
  Wang
• NETL Program Manager Aaron Yocum

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SRCLID Overview

• Vision Develop multiscale physics-based material
  models experimentally validated to be used for
  design optimization of components, systems, and
  lightweight materials for the southern automotive
  corridor of the U.S.

• Mission Provide a robust design methodology
  including uncertainty to create innovative
  solutions for the automotive and materials
  industries. Theory development, experimental
  characterization, large-scale computing, new
  material development, and math-based tools are
  sought for use in designing next-generation
  vehicles under various crash and high-speed
  impact environments.

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SRCLID Tasks

• Task 1 Multiscale Microstructure-Property
  Plasticity Considering Uncertainty
• Task 2 Materials Design for Steel Alloys
• Task 3 Structural Nanocomposite Design
• Task 4 Simulation-Based Design Optimization
• Task 5 Examining Fundamental Mechanisms of
  Tooling Wear for Materials Processing
• Task 6 Fatigue Performance of Lightweight
  Materials
• Task 7 Cyberinfrastructure
• Task 8 K-12 Program

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Benefit to DOE and Budget

• Improve fuel economy and reduce emissions
  Improve driving/handling and safety Increase
  usage of lightweight material in vehicle design
  and development

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SRCLID Management Plan

• Organization
• 2 Principal Managers
• 8 Task Leaders
• 1 Industrial Liaison Don Penrod
• Conduct monthly reporting and semi-annual review
  meetings
• Seek relevance to current DOE projects
• Increase cost share sponsorship (up to 550K now,
  aim at gt 1MM)

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Significant events - 1

• Participated in TMS Orlando Mg 3-country meeting,
  March 1, 2007, official kick-off meeting
• USAMP MFERD ICME Program
• USAMP MFERD Phase 1, Enabling Technology
  Development
• Presented several key technical presentations at
  TMS meeting, PM conferences, multiscale,
  cyberdesign, PM,
• Released three CAVS internal reports

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SRCLID Test Bed Critical Path
Mg Front End Project
Task 7 Cyber - Specific services supporting
design optimizations and multiscale simulations
Task 4 Design/Optimization - Develop single and
multilevel solution strategies for optimization
of a front end structure under uncertainty
Task 1 Multiscale with Uncertainty - Experimental
quantification of the structure-property
relations with consideration of uncertainty for
Magnesium alloys processing
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Significant events - 2

• AMPS software training at CAVS, April 3-4
• CAVS partnership meeting potential industry
  partners reviewed DOE and other large scale
  programs, April 5
• Additional cost share company Mg front end
  project, MSC, MS Children Museum, Korean steel
  companies (SAC, POSCO)
• Obtained MSCAT 50K funding to support Task 8
  K-12 Education

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SRCLID Partners (Blue Designates Potential
Partners)
Task 1 Tower Automotive AMPS Technology Miltec
Corporation Ford Motor Co. General Motor
Co. DaimlerChrysler Co. Wade Services, Inc. USX
Norsk Hydro Gibbs American Iron and Steel
Institute Alcoa
Task 3 Vista Engineering Ford Southern Clay
Products Boeing Co.
Task 6 Front-end Mg Project (GM, Dick Osborne/Don
Penrod) nCode Alcoa
Task 4 Vanderplaats Research and Development,
Inc MSC Software Wade Services, Inc. Front-end Mg
Project (GM, Ford, DCC) Tower Engineering
Auto Steel Partnership
Task 7 Ford Motor Co. General Motor
Co. DaimlerChrysler Co.
Task 8 Vista Engineering Mississippi Children
Museum Nissan Foundation
Task 2 Wade Services, Inc. Korean
Companies AISI Auto Steel Partnership Mittal
Steel USA
Task 5 Anter Corporation AMPAL, Inc Gasbarre
Products, Inc. PVA MIMtech, LLC Ceta Tech, Inc.
Setaram Instrumentation