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AlphaSTAR Clients Include:
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DARPA
High Performance Computing in the Design of Lightweight Army Vehicle Components
Under funding from DARPA, AlphaSTAR conducted a pilot study on leveraging High Performance Computing
(HPC) for the design of durable and reliable military ground vehicles. It identified challenges
for reliable and cost affordable design of Army vehicle components for:
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Reduced weight and increased durability and reliability of key military vehicle components
and systems as well as keeping cost down
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Progress beyond analysis of vehicle component subsystem in isolation, which can lead to additional
design cycles and expensive physical prototype testing
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Move toward whole-vehicle modeling and analysis to provide increased design yields and reduced
operational and manufacturing costs
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Reduce the number of parts (via consolidation)
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Reduce vehicle breakdowns, decrease fuel consumption, and extend vehicle lifespan
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Leverage HPC to provide robust design capability of complex automotive structures by applying
coupled durability-reliability-optimization solution to insert light weight materials in components
of military vehicles
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Optimize product performance by eliminating subsystem modeling in isolation to improve reliability
and Durability and Damage Tolerance (D&DT)
 | | Spectrum fatigue loading |
 | | Structural damage (in red) in upper and lower control arms of HMMWV suspension unit |
| Reference | | G. Abumeri, B. K. Knouff, D. Lamb, D. Hudak, and R. Graybill, "Benefits Of High Performance Computing In The Design Of Lightweight Army Vehicle Components", Presented at the Army Science Conference-Nov2010, Orlando, FL. |
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