Providing a fully integrated system for enhanced productivity
and improved performance and safety.
Multiscale Design Systems
Providing a fully integrated system for enhanced productivity
and improved performance and safety.
MDS Product Lines
We offer two product lines: the Multiscale Design System for Continuum (MDS-C) and the Multiscale Design System for Discrete or atomistic medium (MDS-D).
Our products consist of a set of components software (libraries) that provide a seamless plug-in to various commercial software.
Our products are intended to:
- reduce prototyping costs and time to market
- improve performance and safety (existing commercial codes often fail to match experimental data for complex materials)
- require fewer experiments than conventional phemenological approaches
Multiscale Design System for Continuum (MDS-C)
The MDS-C line provides a seamless plug-in for the analysis and design of structural components made of composites (CMCs, PMCs, or MMCs), polycrystals, concrete, soil, or any other material system involving a microstructure.
MDS-C consists of validated reduced-order multiscale analysis capabilities integrated into a commercial software of choice and an optimization package for model calibration (or parameter identification) and validation.
The multiscale design process employed by MDS-C consists of several interlinked stages as shown to the right.
The technologies and modules involved in this process are:
- Mathematical upscaling: derivation of coupled coarse-scale equations from fine-scale equations using mathematical homogenization theory
- Computational upscaling: reducing the complexity of solving a fine-scale problem to a manageable size that can be adapted based on available computational resources and error estimates in the quantities of interest
- Model calibration: solving an inverse problem for constitutive parameters (interfaces, fibers/tows, matrix) by minimizing the error between experimental data at coupon and fine-scale levels hosted in the Experimental Depository
Multiscale Design System for Discrete or atomistic medium (MDS-D)
The MDS-D product line is intended to link continuum and discrete (atomistic) scales, primarily for nanotechnology applications.