Multi-disciplinary Digital Design and Manufacturing (D2M)

Increased efficiency by digital technologies reduces materials usage and environmental footprint. Manufacturing activity is responsible for 54% of the world's energy consumption and 20% of global CO2 emissions. A promising solution to sustainability lies at the interfaces between material sciences, digital manufacturing, and advanced engineering design methods. Additive manufacturing (aka. 3D printing) is inherently a digital process that enables disruptive workflows, emerging as a frontier in the advancement of scientific research. The scientific objective of this research is to develop modeling frameworks, software solutions, and computer-aided expert systems for multi-scale and multi-disciplinary simulation and optimisation in digital design and manufacturing. This project explores functional materials and tailored geometrical compositions while assessing in real-time the impact of engineering choices on performance, time, cost, energy consumption, and footprint