ADVANCED MATERIAL SIMULATION is a materials modeling company that provides characterization, simulation, and analysis services. They were founded in 2011 by experts in fracture mechanics, simulation, materials science, and numerical techniques. Their services include materials testing, finite element modeling, image analysis, and fracture mechanics assessments. They have experience across multiple industries including aerospace, civil engineering, and energy.
2. Introduction
• ADVANCED MATERIAL SIMULATION is a high tech SME company
focused on material modelling and prototype simulations.
• The company was founded in 2011 by a multidisciplinary team with
extensive experience in Fracture Mechanics, structural simulation, material
science, optimization and numerical techniques.
AMSIndustryUniversityMULTISECTOR APPLICATIONS.
Building
Aeronautical Transport
Civil
engineering Nuclear Energy
6. Non-conventional characterization of materials
Experiments
Numerical
simulations
Model reduction
Optimizations
techniques
• Material properties
o Plastic stress- strain curve
o Fracture energy
• Iterative algorithm
• Quasi-perfect fit
• Time and space constraints
solved
8. • Applications:
– Analyses of mismatch regions
– Determinations of mechanical behavior
from prototypes
– Industry 4.0
• Inverse analyses
– Model reduction
• Robust design
• IOT devices
• Quick response
Non-conventional characterization of materials
(Maziere 2009)
9. Numerical simulations
•Finite element and volume element codes
•Experts in FEM comercial codes commonly used as ABAQUS, ANSYS,
SC03... and free finite element software as CALCULIX.
10. Numerical simulations
Experience
•Structural
•Contact interaction
•Plastic and creep
•Non linear problems
•Fracture
•Fracture mechanics calculations.
•Cohesive modeling
•Damage models
•Multiphysic models
•Thermodynamics of façades
•Heat and moisture transport
•CFD
•Rainwater runoff analyses
•Wind driven rain
•Coupled models
11. Numerical simulations
•Structural
•Special boundary conditions not implemented in commercial codes
•Plastic user subroutines – UMAT in ABAQUS
•Creep user subroutines – usercreep in ABAQUS, ANSYS
•Fracture
•User cohesive elements – UEL in ABAQUS
•XFEM analysis
•Multiphysic models
•USD equations – FLUENT
•Ad hoc plug-in – ABAQUS
•Scripting – parametric calculations
in ABAQUS, ANSYS, WORKBENCH
ADVANCED
12. Numerical simulations: Prototype modelling
Project partner simulating prototypes:
•Building panels for retrofitting. Modelling heat, air
and moisture transport and wind driven rain
boundary conditions.
•Turbine gas components modelling: Experimental
validation of a non-linear buckling method on a rear
engine mount support structure
AMS IndustryUniversity
13. Software
• PYTHON AND MATLAB
• Automatization with PYTHON
• AMS automatic algorithm
• EXCEL, OUTLOOK complements
• Mining data
• Automatic reporting
17. Example experience
• Caracterización del comportamiento mecánico a alta velocidad de
deformación de materiales ferroviarios.
• Cliente: CAF.
• Desarrollo de un modelo y validación del mismo que permita predecir y
mejorar el comportamiento a fatiga de elementos de acero estructural
mediante el refuerzo con materiales poliméricos reforzados con fibra de
carbono y comparación con aquellos sometidos a tratamientos de Shot
Peening, para su aplicación en elementos estructurales de alto desempeño.
19. AMS publications
International publications :
F.J. Gómez Sánchez; M.A. Martin Rengel; J. Ruiz-Hervias; Rodriguez, J.; Gomez Sanchez, F. J. M.A. Puerta.
“Study of the hoop fracture behaviour of nuclear fuel cladding from ring compression tests by means of non-linear
optimization techniques.” Journal of Nuclear Materials 2017 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.03.043.)
F.J. Gómez Sánchez; F. Berto. “Equivalent local mode I concept applied to fracture of graphite round V-notches
under static multiaxial loading” Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 2017
(DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2017.04.019.)
F.J. Gómez Sánchez; M.A. Martin Rengel; J. Ruiz-Hervias “A new procedure to calculate the constitutive equation
of nuclear fuel cladding from ring compression tests” Progress in Nuclear Energy 2017 Volume: 97, pp 245-251
M.A. Martin Rengel; F.J. Gómez Sánchez; A. Rico, J. Ruiz-Hervias; Jesus Rodriguez. “Obtention of the
constitutive equation of hydride blisters in fuel cladding from nanoindentation tests” Journal of Nuclear
Materials 2017
(DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2017.02.001.)
J. Rodriguez; A. Salazar; F.J. Gomez; J.G. Williams“Fracture of notched samples in epoxy resin: Experiments and
cohesive model” Engineering Fracture Mechanics 2015 (DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2015.06.058)