Methodology
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Accelerated AI
Specific materials size scales the correct inputs-outputs
Multi-scale models
Comprehensive multi-scale physicalmodel
Scientific & technological
Methodology for each of the core development themes that support the realisation of the project’s overall concept and achievement of its objectives.
Strategy for the development
- HEA-s based
- Green: nontoxic substance
- Sustainable: REEs / PGMs free
Timeline
The growing requirement for performance, productivity and efficiency subject mechanical products and tools to work under extreme environments thus leading to ever-increasing demand for developing new coatings - the opportunity. However, the consumption of toxic substance, REEs, PGMs and other critical metal elements (CMEs) in most of current coatings has raised great concerns over safety, sustainability and the resilience of EU industry – the challenges. M2DESCO’s solution is a holistic strategy for the development of novel, HEAs-based, green (nontoxic substance) and sustainable (REEs/PGMs free) coatings, which is underpinned by smart modelling-based design for safety and sustainability and enabled by innovative surface technologies. The following presents scientific/technological methodology for each of the core development themes thatsupport the realisation of the project’s overall concept and achievement of its objectives. The project will allow to evolve fromlower TRLs to higher TRLs towards eventually commercialization and associated timeline.
The multi-scale models and their interconnections
The nucleus of the project activities and its success lay in the development of a comprehensive multi-scale physical model in which efficient predictive-tool, accelerated through AI and ML can act on specific materials size scales and receive-provide the correct inputs-outputs in an efficient way. In order to illustrate this concept, the following figure shows a scheme of the multi-scale framework envisaged at M2DESCO.
The industrial cases
M2DESCO will evaluate the impacts of the outcomes on 2 specific manufacturing processes, by intercomparing the results of the multi-scale models with specific coating production and testing. The uses cases encompass i) the manufacturing of metal parts by hot forging and ii) the machining of materials difficult to cut such as titanium and Ni-super alloys, hardened steels, and metal matrix composites for different parts of electric vehicles; turbines, transmission gears, break-paths, etc.
