Army teams with Johns Hopkins to advance materials research

Sikhanda Satapathy, from DEVCOM ARL, and Prof. K.T. Ramesh, director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, will lead the research activities. To launch these projects, the partners held a joint virtual kickoff meeting Nov. 4."This collaborative agreement will enable and accelerate intelligent design of materials for extreme dynamic environments to support our Soldiers and address Army's future material needs," Satapathy said.Over the next two years, researchers will explore the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate materials development. One of the projects is focused using artificial intelligence techniques to accelerate the processing and characterization of new materials."This The experimentally and computationally generated data will be used to train neural networks which will be used to accelerate the materials design process.Another project will incorporate machine learning of acoustic emission measurements to characterize materials deformation mechanisms. These measurements are non-trivial and require expertise in both instrumentation and data analysis."This