Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center reports on new manufacturing process technologies.
4/21/2003
Technology continues to revolutionize the manufacturing process at a rate that makes it difficult to keep up with the latest developments. At the forefront of that development is the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, which each year delivers an annual report on its research and innovations. The recently released report for 2002 includes seven articles on manufacturing process design. Three of the pieces look at turbine technology, while the remainder discuss computational modeling of aluminum automobile components, studies of concentrated polymer solutions in strong flows, modeling steel metallurgy in continuous casting tundishes, and aluminum can design with finite element methods. The overall PRS report also includes sections on semiconductor design and production, design of new materials, and aerospace engineering and design.