| Scope |
This symposium will bring together practitioners and decision-makers from multiple sectors, i.e. industry, academia, and government, to discuss the state-of-the-art and paths-forward in development and adoption of computational materials technologies in industries’ qualification and certification (Q&C) activities. The primary objectives of the symposium are to provide a detailed overview of the key elements relevant to the development and adoption of computational materials technologies in Q&C activities; facilitate continued collaborative discussions among the industrial, regulatory, and scientific communities including identification of areas for government and industry R&D investments; discuss the needs and requirements of the federal agencies and regulatory bodies in this arena; and increase airworthiness and the certifying authorities’ awareness and acceptance of computational materials informed methods for Q&C of structural or flight-critical parts made with metallic process intensive materials (PIM).
The motivation for organizing this symposium arose from several events that occurred over the past four years. In mid-November of 2019, a Workshop on Materials and Methods for Rapid Manufacturing for Commercial and Urban Aviation, organized by NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, was held in Washington DC. Subsequently, a Technical Interchange Meeting on Computational Materials Approaches for Qualification by Analysis, organized by NASA, NIST, and the FAA, was held on January 15-16 2020 at NASA Langley Research Center. Largely as a result of these two meetings, in September 2020 the Computational Materials for Qualification and Certification (CM4QC) Steering Group (SG) was established, including 25 member organizations, with a mission to explore strategies for maturing and developing trust in Computational Materials (CM) capabilities for use in the qualification and certification (Q&C) of metallic PIM for aeronautics applications, including but not limited to metals additive manufacturing (MAM). The culmination of the group’s activities will be a roadmap document that is on track to be completed by the end of 2023. The roadmap is a community vision spanning topics related to the use of CM capabilities as a component of industry’s Q&C framework; identification of the relevant regulatory gaps, enablers and requirements, including acceptable levels of V&V; identification of key CM and enabling technologies, assessment of their current maturity levels, and required future development and opportunities for investment. Part of this symposium will entail presentations focused on the roadmapping activities of the SG. |