Introduction To The Course
Introduction To The Course
Introduction
Dr. S. Sohail Akhtar
Mechanical Engineering Department
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Product Lifecycle
https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/SITaxonomies-finalwithBio.pdf
Tentative Outline of Topics
Collaborators:
• Rezayat Protective Coating Co. Ltd.
Dammam (for coating)
• University of Toronto ((for coating)
• ALUPCO, Dammam (for nitriding)
Evolution of Residual Stress in Thermal Spray
Coatings using Hybrid Computational Approach
Densification
Mechanisms considered
• Creep
• Electro-migration
• Diffusion Under load
• Surface tension Experimental Simulation
Process parameters
Cutting Tools: Design, Development and
Performance
Design using
Predictive tools
Development
Performance
Metal Casting
Collaborator:
MASABIK, Dammam
Metal Casting
MAGMALINK
Interface between
MAGMASOFT and ABAQUS
Modeling and Simulation of Multi-Physics
Problems
o Metal forming/tools
o Laser manufacturing and surface treatment
o Coatings performance
o Phase-Field modeling
Laser Machining
Some on-going projects..
1. Manufacturing of functionally-graded SiAlON-Based cutting inserts and performance
optimization using machining modeling
2. Development of Physics-based Computational Framework for Optimization of Metal
Additive Manufacturing
3. Advancing Metal Additive Manufacturing through Hybrid Constitutive Modeling for
Biomedical Component Optimization.
4. Simulation-based Optimization of Mold Design for High-Quality Castings
5. Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Technology for Metal Parts Used in the Nuclear
Industry
6. Advancing Hybrid Polymer Coating Technology for Mitigating Fouling and Mechanical
Degradation in Metallic Surfaces for Desalination and Related Applications
7. Design and Development of Sustainable Polymer-Composite Heat Transfer
components in Thermal Desalination System