Topic 1
Simulation of additive manufacturing process of an exemplary polymer part.
Additive manufacturing (AM) of different class of materials has drawn a significant attention in industries for commercial applications. Digital twin of AM would assist in visualization of temperature or stress field developed during the process. The objective of the thesis is to develop a strategy to simulate the printing process in a commercial FE tool. Later this would be used to demonstrate simulation of the printing process for exemplary structures.
Image source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103984
Topic 2
Synthetic microstructure generator for multiscale simulations of polymer composites.
Synthetic microstructures are severely required for robust multiscale simulation & validations with analytical models. The objective of the thesis would be to setup a framework for microstructure generator in the group for several class of heterogenous materials.
Image Source: 10.1016/j.cma.2020.113580
Topic 3
A multiscale modeling framework for structural simulation using FE-mean field & FE2 method for linear thermoelastic problems.
Industry has a strong demand for simulation tools that is capable of capturing the materials effects observed at the structural scale which again is governed by the physics occurring at small length scale. The objective of the thesis would be to establish a FE^2 simulation framework for linear behaviour of composites. This has to be demonstrated for application in exemplary structures.
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