Hochleistungsrechnen trifft Hochleistungsstahl : Herausforderungen zweier Welten
In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden neue, moderne Stahlsorten entwickelt.
Diese Stähle haben gegenüber den bisher dagewesenen verbesserte Eigenschaften und stärken die Attraktivität von Stahl gegenüber Alternativen wie Aluminium und Kunststoff.
Modern high-tech steels offer many
possibilities for improvements in
engineering applications, while virtual
labs can help to taylor the materials
to be best suited for an underlying
application. A realistic modeling
of the inherent phenomena
acting on the microstructural level
are inevitable for reliable computations.
In the case of dual-phase steel,
the interaction of the two phases in
the microstructure together with the
polycrystalline structure of each
phase contribute to the complex
macroscopic material response.
Homogenization approaches are
necessary to account for the effects
on both scales, such as the FE2-
method. Due to the enormous size
of the simulations, the computational
power of modern supercomputers
is necessary. State-of-the-art
computer architectures provide up
to ten million parallel processing
units and to exploit them efficiently,
it is mandatory that the mayor part
of the underlying computations of a
numerical method can be performed
in parallel. This is possible in the
FE2-method as well as in domain
decomposition methods as FETI-DP (Finite Element Tearing and
Interconnecting – Dual-Primal). The
combination of both methods,
named FE2TI, managed to run efficiently
on some of the largest supercomputers.