CMPD

How Joining the Center for Material Processing Data Can Improve Your Company’s Performance

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photo of Prof. Lesley Frame, CMPD Director, at the Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC), UConn Tech Park, with Center Director Prof. Rainer Hebert.
Prof. Lesley Frame, CMPD Director, at the Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center (PW AMC), UConn Tech Park, with Center Director Prof. Rainer Hebert.

Manufacturing is changing. More demanding applications have pushed chemistries to their limits and increased the need for process modeling and digital twin analysis across industries. These modeling methods are improving in sophistication, but they are only as accurate as the data used for their calculations. No longer are assumptions of static material properties sufficient to keep up with the needs of industry. The limits of the current data are driving cost increases across industry in the direct costs of materials as well as indirect costs in performance and product sustainability.

The Center for Materials Processing Data (CMPD)* was formed in 2019 to address these challenges. CMPD is a member-driven research center dedicated to producing and collecting pre-competitive transient material property data used in materials process simulations. CMPD is a consortium of key academic and industry organizations with the goal of providing this transient materials data to the materials community for improved modeling of materials and process design.

CMPD’s pilot project has focused on material flow stress behavior as a function of strain rate, temperature, and prior microstructure for several common industry alloys. The resulting data was shared directly with industry partners as well as with ASM international’s data ecosystem for access by future members. Members benefit from unlimited non-exclusive access to all resulting process data, shared prioritization and management of data development projects, and proposal rights for new data generation projects. Following a successful preliminary test run, CMPD is now seeking additional industrial members to join the likes of industry partners Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, and Timken to help build the next generation of materials data.

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*UConn, WPI, and the University of Buffalo along with founding industry partners Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace, and Timken partnered with ASM international in 2019 to form CMPD. For more information, visit the ASM website.

Reliable Data & Realistic Simulations for the Manufacturing Industry

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The Center for Materials Property Data (CMPD) is a multi-university effort with industry that generates and collects transient materials property data for manufacturing process models and materials behavior discovery. These data are vital to the accuracy of the models and can significantly reduce the high costs and time spent on trial-and-error methods that have been used for years.

The center was established by three academic institutions, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Connecticut, and the University at Buffalo, in cooperation with ASM International. Each academic partner brings unique scientific expertise to the program while ASM International serves as the materials data archive, enabling easy access to data by industry members and non-members.

CMPD is a collaborative, member-driven center. Portfolio projects are proposed by member companies and carried out by the academic members. Member companies help govern the center, have unrestricted access to data, select and share management of data generation projects, and benefit from shared expertise.

CMPD also has access to UConn Tech Park’s state-of-the-art equipment, a tremendous resource for collecting dynamic materials property data. More sophisticated equipment means better data; better data means more reliable models and better predictions of material behavior during processing.

The CMPD approach is becoming a more common trend in industry, with a shift away from the trial-and-error approach for process development and a desire to be able to model and predict materials behaviors.

Executive Director of UConn Tech Park Pamir Alpay is confident the program will continue to thrive and advance the university as a leader in innovation for manufacturing research and materials engineering. “CMPD is a massive project and plays a significant role in everything we’re doing at Tech Park on manufacturing technologies,” he says. “It’s a huge effort that serves a large community and it is making a big impact.”

For more information on CMPD, visit https://cmpd.asminternational.org/home.