A Knowledge Modeling Framework for Computational Materials Engineering

Abstract

Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is a new approach to the design and development of materials, manufacturing processes and products. The approach proposes using a combination of modeling and simulation, datadriven reasoning and knowledge-guided decision making. Industrialization of this approach requires strong automation support. Modeling and simulation is a highly knowledge-intensive activity and integrated design requires knowledge cutting across several design domains. For the industrialization vision to succeed, it is essential to capture this knowledge and make it available in a usable form for people not so skilled in these areas. With this motivation, we are building a comprehensive computational platform to support this emerging design paradigm. We present an overview of the platform and discuss its knowledge engineering requirements. We present a knowledge modeling framework to address these requirements.