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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology) should promote database and knowledge base construction and standardization, design-knowledge tool demonstrations, and pilot projects as part of their future systems programs. These programs should integrate existing computer-aided system tools. Two potential ways in which this might be accomplished are to provide (1) funding for demonstration programs with creative problem solving and design concepts to teams of university faculty and students composed of computer scientists, engineering design specialists, materials scientists, and cognitive psychologists and (2) financial incentives to industry for sharing materials property data where input to public and limited access materials knowledge bases can be controlled.
Industries and universities should be encouraged to collaborate in:
developing and using well-defined standards for electronic information sharing to enable selective protection of organizational private data, company proprietary data, and industry restricted data from the public domain data;
improving contact between researcher, designer, and supplier on design teams;
increasing rate of generation, validation, and exchange of materials data;
developing powerful programs for service life prediction of structural components from materials data, constitutive models, and in-service nondestructive testing;
developing models of practical significance to product development;
providing materials development data in machine readable electronic format;
preparing standards for knowledge representation of materials information (e.g., properties tables, graphs, and pictorial descriptions of microstructures);
publicizing success stories where experienced engineers select materials showing that proper representations together with reasoning examples will promote effective material computer-aided systems development; and
developing an information base on available (network accessible) materials databases and computer-aided systems.
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