Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Biography

Biography: Chidozie C. Nwobi-Okoye

Abstract

A major problem in the development of materials for engineering use is the precise prediction and modeling of its properties. Experimental determination of properties of materials is very expensive, and often development of materials to posses certain properties requires series of costly trials and errors. Sometimes one needs to conduct thousands of experiment in order to precisely predict and model the properties of certain materials required for engineering use. Quite often, in order to avoid the use of experiments mathematical models are used, but mathematical models do fail in certain cases, thus necessitating the use of computational models and artificial intelligence, which is often bereft of complex and messy mathematics, as an alternative. This paper highlights the importance and promise of the use of computational models and artificial intelligence for material development and modeling of their properties. Also discussed is the immense potential of the miracle material, graphene, clay-polymer composites, superconductors etc, advances in modeling their properties and their possible applications in aeronautics, aerospace and mechanical engineering. It is shown that the current and future advances in the development of materials for aeronautics, aerospace and mechanical engineering applications depend to a large extent on the development of excellent computational models and artificial intelligence techniques for modeling engineering materials.