Designing heterogeneous hierarchical material systems: a holistic approach to structural and materials design
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Emily M. Ryan; Jillian L. Goldfarb; Athar Roshandelpoor; Zoe A. Pollard; Pirooz Vakili; Quang-Thinh Ha
- Source
- MRS Communications. 9:628-636
- Subject
- Structure (mathematical logic)
Materials science
Statistical design
business.industry
Physical system
Material system
02 engineering and technology
Materials design
Parameter space
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
General Materials Science
Holistic design
0210 nano-technology
Process engineering
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2159-6867
2159-6859
Many materials systems comprise complex structures where multiple materials are integrated to achieve a desired performance. Often in these systems, it is a combination of both the materials and their structure that dictate performance. Here the authors layout an integrated computational–statistical–experimental methodology for hierarchical materials systems that takes a holistic design approach to both the material and structure. The authors used computational modeling of the physical system combined with statistical design of experiments to explore an activated carbon adsorption bed. The large parameter space makes experimental optimization impractical. Instead, a computational–statistical approach is coupled with physical experiments to validate the optimization results.