About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Materials Research in Reduced Gravity
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| Presentation Title |
NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS) Reduced Gravity Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Study |
| Author(s) |
Louise Littles, Michael Sansoucie |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Louise Littles |
| Abstract Scope |
The Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS) Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD), and its predecessors, has sponsored extensive flight and ground experiments yielding benchmark datasets including thermophysical properties and solidification. The subject study sought to motivate and focus BPS’s engagement within the broader Integrated ICME community to understand the phenomena underlying material processing, structure, and properties in the microgravity environment of space and to thereby support future space exploration efforts. Concentrating on BPS-relevant physical phenomena including solidification kinetics, coupled solidification-fluids, and structures up to the grain length scale (mesoscale) needed to benchmark computational models will enable rapid advances in materials for both terrestrial and space use – for example, through better predictions of in-space joining, welding, and manufacturing. A variety of accomplishments and findings resulted from this confluence of academia, industry, and government experts, and these will be presented. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
ICME, Solidification, Computational Materials Science & Engineering |