ICME Demo Validation and Zone Mapping
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