TY - JOUR
T1 - The Penn State-Georgia Tech CCMD
T2 - ushering in the ICME Era
AU - Liu, Zi Kui
AU - McDowell, David L.
N1 - Funding Information:
In May 2007, the CCMD teamed with the Center for Dielectric Study (CDS) at Penn State to submit a successful proposal on ‘Computational Modeling of Defects and Minor Chemical Additives in Functional Materials’ to the TIE program at NSF, which sought to link efforts of multiple I/UCRCs. This work focused on the thermodynamics and defects formation in perovskites, starting from the prediction of properties of constituent pure element and binary systems such as Ti, TiO, and PbTiO. A 2-year NSF supplement funding project IIP-0823907, Fundamental Supplement Proposal: Bridging First-principles and Molecular Dynamics Methods to Support Alloy Design in the CCMD, was funded from 2008 to 2010. Investigators included D.L. McDowell, T. Zhu, and K. Jacob from Georgia Tech and Z.-K. Liu and V. Crespi from Penn State. By definition, simulation-based materials design requires computational exploration of new materials that have not previously been envisioned or developed. This necessitates the use of first-principles and atomistic simulations to estimate fundamental properties of crystals and phases, thereby facilitating consideration in design. 2 3
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful for the long-term support of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD), including dues contributions of CCMD members, through grants IIP-0433033 (Penn State), IIP-0541674 (Penn State) and IIP-541678 (Georgia Tech) from 2005–2010, and IIP-1034965 (Penn State) and IIP-1034968 (Georgia Tech) from 2010 to 2013. The authors would like to thank our collaborators at Penn State and Georgia Tech for their enthusiastic and innovative contributions to CCMD projects and meetings over the years, including Co-PIs of the CCMD planning, phase I, and phase II proposals (Long-Qing Chen, Qiang Du, James Kubicki, Evangelos Manias, Padma Raghavan, and Jorge Sofo at Penn State, and Hamid Garmestani, Farrokh Mistree, Richard Neu, and Min Zhou at Georgia Tech), various additional Penn State and Georgia Tech faculty involved in CCMD proposals and projects, and students who conducted research with CCMD support. ZKL also acknowledges Penn State for further reduced overhead rate and Penn State MRI (Materials Research Institute) that provided partial support of the CCMD administrative staff. DLM also acknowledges the support of the Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF, Penn State, or Georgia Tech.
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This conceptual basis for a center that would develop novel predictive algorithms and methods to support materials design and development led to engagement of a set of initial industry and government stakeholders in fall 2003 to write a letter expressing support for the concept of the CCMD, including Air Products, Inc., ALCOA, Allegheny Ludlum, Boeing Company, Caterpillar Inc., ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Ford Motor Company, GE Global Research Center, GE Power Systems, General Motors, Honeywell-Aerospace, Intel, KennaMetal, Inc., Marlow Industries, Inc., Nippon Steel Corporation (Japan), Pratt & Whitney, Questek LLC, RTI International, Special Metals Company, ThermoCalc Software, AB (Sweden), Timken, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, NASA, Natural Resources Canada (Canada), NIST, Oak Ridge National Lab, Sandia National Labs, SRI International, Exponent, GE Aircraft Engines, DuPont, Argonne National Laboratories, Synaps, Inc., Dana Technology Development Group, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFMC), and SI Flooring Systems. This led to submission of a planning proposal to the NSF I/UCRC program to establish the CCMD in 2004, followed by a 21 January 2005 planning workshop held at Penn State. The strategy to form the CCMD rested on the complementary nature of strengths. Penn State's world class capabilities in computational thermodynamics and phase-field theory were combined with Georgia Tech's widely recognized expertise in microstructure-property relations and systems-based materials design. Based on the discussion and feedback from the industry and government labs, a full proposal was submitted to the NSF in June 2005. The proposal for phase I CCMD was funded, with the 1.5-day kickoff meeting held on 3 to 4 November 2005 at Penn State, with 13 initial members. Phase I was in effect from 2005 to 2010. A follow-on phase II was funded by the NSF from 2010 to 2013. This time frame spans the era preceding and leading up to the National Materials Advisory Board report on ICME, as well as the 2011 launch of the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) [].
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© 2014, Liu and McDowell; licensee Springer.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - This case study paper presents the origins, philosophy, organization, development, and contributions of the joint Penn State-Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD), a NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) founded in 2005. As a predecessor of and catalyst for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), the CCMD served as a basis for coupling industry, academia, and government in advancing the state of computational materials science and mechanics across a portfolio of process-structure-property-performance relations, with emphasis on education and training of the future workforce in computational materials design.
AB - This case study paper presents the origins, philosophy, organization, development, and contributions of the joint Penn State-Georgia Tech Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD), a NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) founded in 2005. As a predecessor of and catalyst for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), the CCMD served as a basis for coupling industry, academia, and government in advancing the state of computational materials science and mechanics across a portfolio of process-structure-property-performance relations, with emphasis on education and training of the future workforce in computational materials design.
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U2 - 10.1186/s40192-014-0028-2
DO - 10.1186/s40192-014-0028-2
M3 - Article
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VL - 3
SP - 409
EP - 428
JO - Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
JF - Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
SN - 2193-9764
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