Project Title:

Intelligent Database for Space Environment Effects on Composite Materials

94-1	04.04	8400		

Intelligent Database for Space Environment Effects on Composite 
Materials

Abstract:

An intelligent database for composite materials will be expanded to 
include the effects of space environments. The core intelligent 
database system currently under development covers basic properties 
of polymer matrix composite materials and their constituents. The 
database provides capabilities for handling sparse data, for 
predicting missing properties, and for accessing external 
databases. The project objectives are the expansion of this 
intelligent database system to extend the material scope to all 
classes of composite materials and to add capabilities for 
environmental and other time-dependent effects. Results anticipated 
from the Phase I program are the establishment of data elements and 
appropriate structures for handling the expanded database scope, 
consideration of procedures for defining data quality levels and 
approaches for predicting missing information, and developing a 
model system to evaluate overall feasibility of continued work. The 
expanded system will allow accessing external databases and 
significantly improve the availability of data to designers, 
materials and processing engineers, and anyone involved in the 
evaluation and use of composite properties.

The expansion of the full-scale intelligent database system 
applicable to all classes of composite materials will be useful for 
design, fabrication studies and evaluation of experimental data. 
The range of the intelligent database system will include all 
applications for composite materials requiring basic static and 
dynamic properties, time-dependent or environmental effects, or any 
combination of these properties and effects.

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