Technology Transfer

Applications

 > Aerospace

• New generation of aero engines.
• Thermal barrier coatings.
• Super-alloys.

> Power Generation

• Gas turbines.
• Heat exchangers.
• "Hot" ducts and devices.
• Compressors.

> Environment

• Environmentally friendly engines.

> Automotive

• Materials for advanced engines.

Keywords

• Materials, Ceramics, Metals, Composites, Systems of materials, High temperature materials, Thermo mechanical fatigue, Lightweight structures, Lifetime prediction, Fatigue, Creep, Oxidation, Crack propagation.

Advantages

• Accurate life time prediction for various types of thermo-mechanical loading.

Description

• Constitutive laws, damage mechanics and life time analysis of materials and structures.
  ZéBuLoN (Z-Set) code: Behavior modeling of complex structures under thermo-mechanical loading such as turbine blades and cylinder heads, using a full-featured, parallel, nonlinear FEA solver with many special abilities for materials-oriented analysis:

  • Data base of experimentally validated models in the Z-mat non linear material constitutive model library.
  • Z-mat interfaces available for use with ABAQUS Standard and Explicit, ANSYS, LS-Dyna, MARC, and Samcef.
  • Life-time prediction: fatigue, creep, oxidation, crack propagation
  • Up to ten million DOF by parallel numerical models.
  • Multi scale modeling with explicit scale transitions.
  • Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM).
  • Optimisation module.