Research Opportunities
The future of domestic aerospace materials research will depend critically on accelerating the pace of development, reducing implementation risk, and converting basic research findings into technology more rapidly and efficiently. It will also require a stronger collaboration between practitioners who know the issues and gaps and the laboratories carrying out the research. The center will succeed by identifying the right basic research and the right researchers, with up-front knowledge of the requirements, risk, and payoff for industrial implementation. AMERIC basic research will support important industrial efforts to increase materials utilization, develop materials for more demanding hypersonic and space missions, optimize processing for better properties and component reliability, and improve the life management and prognostics for fielded systems.
AMERIC will focus on performing basic research that supports larger industrial initiatives such as those above yet this research will adhere to the unique research capabilities of the university alliance and its educational mission. As such center research will focus on developing Integrated Computational Metals Engineering tools and methods, generating key data, and performing critical experiments and material characterization. The results of this research will enable industrial members to simulate the performance of processes and materials up-front and thereby lower the risk of larger scale research and development.
AMERIC basic research projects will make use of the research facilities of the entire membership, including the unique facilities available among university alliance and government lab members. However, final proof of concept will be conducted at industrial sites.
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