Project start date: January 2018 Estimated time of overall project: 48 months 2018 2019 2020 2021

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Task

WP1: Acquisition of skills

WP1.1: Gain experience in numerical methods, continuum mechanics and metal forming methods

WP1.2: Gain experience of the Unix/Linux environment

WP1.3: Gain experience of programming with C++

WP1.4: Gain experience of OpenFOAM

WP1.5: Gain soft skills such as effective communication, writing and presentation skills

WP2: Microstructural analysis of large deformation frictional contact

WP2.1: Understand into the general relationships between contact properties and key material parameters

WP2.2: Understand the case of metal forming processes such as drawing and rolling

WP2.3: Understand a numerical Represenative Volume Element where small region of the tool and workpiece surfaces –
including local surface topology - will be analysed in contact

WP3: Development of highly parallelised frictional contact procedures for large deformation metal forming simulations

WP3.1: Develop highly parallelised contact search/detection procedures for distributed memory supercomputers

WP3.2: Develop and implemented a novel finite volume framework using the OpenFOAM software

WP3.3: Apply resulting procedures to the simulation of multi-pass wire drawing and wire rolling processes

WP4: Experimental characterisation and validation

WP4.1: Evaluate the experimental surface characterisation methods required to assess the evolution of surface characteristics

WP4.2: Evaluate methods such as optical and electron microscopy, interferometric microscope and contact profilometer

WP4.3: Measure data to provide validation for the developed models.

WP5: Project management and dissemination of results

WP5.1: meetings with Enterprise partner

WP5.2: monthly meetings with the principal supervisor and co-supervisor

WP5.3: international conferences and 2-5 article publishments