Current European Projects
The overarching objective of DIGIPASS is to enhance the digital maturity of the European communities that develop materials and intermediate products. The project will develop recommendations and clear routes toward digitalized circular business models. The overarching key result of DigiPass is to create a sustainable platform which includes support for Digital Materials & Product Passport and for collaborative innovation-by-design processes in a circular economy served by advanced materials. A business model for operating such a platform completes the overarching objective. DigiPass is harmonizing and synergizing collected materials data sources and digital infrastructures. This will enable interoperability of data exchange, and standardization of advanced materials knowledge representation at all maturity levels. Accelerating the design, development, and production of advanced, safe, and sustainable chemicals and materials, as they are necessary for innovative products, calls for a collaborative approach involving different stakeholders to support durability, repair and overhaul, reuse, and recyclability of products. DigiPass project impacts all materials development communities over the whole circular value chain.
Past European Projects
EXAFOAM is a European Project with the main objective to improve parallelization of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. CFD has become a mature technology in engineering design, contributing strongly to industrial competitiveness and sustainability across a wide range of sectors. Future growth depends upon the exploitation of massively parallel HPC architectures. However, this is currently hampered by performance scaling bottlenecks.
VIPCOAT is a European Project with the main objective to establish an ontology-based Open Innovation Platform by development of inhibiting, active protective coatings and corresponding accelerator tests for assessing their in-service durability. The aim is to assist engineers in coating industry in developing coating materials and to advice accelerated test scenarios for their durability based on standardized simulation workflows. Initially, VIPCOAT will target the aeronautic industry, the Open Innovation Platform will develop interoperable Apps, based on standardized ontologies as extensions of the European Materials Modelling Ontology, which will allow cross industry fertilization.
MoDeNa stands for Modelling of morphology Development of micro- and Nano Structures and is a European project that successfully finished at the end of 2016. The main goal was to develop and demonstrate a multi-scale, software-modelling framework under an open-source license. MoDeNa links models with feasible computational loads for process and product design of complex materials and leads to research that fundamentally improves the properties of nanomaterials. MoDeNa can be downloaded at the following link. The final structure of the MoDeNa platform is depicted in the figure on the right. The platform was used to numerically simulate complex multi-scale production process of polyurethane foam. For more details on how MoDeNa works and what are the key elements of the platform, download the pdf file at the link.
TULCS stands for Tools for Ultra Large Container Ships and is a European project that successfully finished in 2012. The main goal of the project was to deliver validated design tools and guidelines, capable of analyzing hydro-structure interaction problems relevant to ULCS. To get a better idea of the scale take a look at the figure on the left. The ship is called Emma Maersk produced at Odense Steel Shipyard in 2006 and is 397.7m long. More details about the project can be access in the following pdf file.