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Team members: PI, C. Bouvard, W. Whittington, M.F. Horstemeyer



=== Introduction ===
An industrial application of the cradle to grave modeling effort pursued at CAVS is presented in this chapter. The experimental and numerical analysis of a Magnesium component provided by General Motors shows the robust methodology developed by our researchers to predict the behavior of a structure under precisely defined boundary conditions. More specifically, the study is about an AZ91 magnesium alloy, die cast, shock tower under monotonic load-to-failure conditions. The goal is to numerically determine the failure location using a validated microstructure-property based material model.


[[Failure Analysis of an AZ91 Automotive Shock Tower]]

[[Fatigue Tests and Predictions of the Shock Tower]]


=== Accomplishments ===

1. Monotonic Shock Tower Analysis

2. Shock Tower Experiments

3. Comparison FEA-Monotonic Experiments

4. Fatigue Tests and Predictions of the Shock Tower


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