Researchers Develop Common Modeling Language

The team, which provides software tools for microstructure simulations, identified the needs and benefits of seamless communication with a variety of computational tools. They developed a set of “metadata descriptors” to describe the three-dimensional microstructure of any generic material. Their method was published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

“Similar to the jpeg (joint photographers expert group) format [for exchanging digital pictures], the group looked for a data scheme allowing the future exchange of complex simulation data as easily as digital pictures are exchanged nowadays,” says Georg Schmitz, senior scientist at Access. “This provides a flavor of what can become possible in the area of materials science and engineering: faster developments of new processes and new materials, of processes and materials having a smaller ecological footprint, and of new materials with new functionalities for new or better products,” he says.

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