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Materials, manufacturing and design are critical pillars in lightweight structures. As the lightest structural metal, magnesium has emerged as a promising structural material for lightweight applications in automotive and other transportation industries. This talk presents examples of magnesium alloy development using phase equilibria calculations and experimental validation. This talk will also summarize the latest process innovations in magnesium manufacturing (casting, forming and joining) for structural applications. Process simulation and multi-scale microstructure modeling techniques are used to develop and optimize these manufacturing processes for automotive lightweighting. Engineering design is a system optimization and iteration process that combines material properties and manufacturing processes to meet product requirements at the lowest mass and/or cost. Future trends in multi-material applications and the integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) are also discussed.
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Luo, A.A. (2014). Alloy Development, Manufacturing and Design for Magnesium Applications. In: Alderman, M., Manuel, M.V., Hort, N., Neelameggham, N.R. (eds) Magnesium Technology 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48231-6_2
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