SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1995
STP15413S

An Intelligent Object-Oriented Database System for Materials Information

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Materials information systems are used normally to provide data that is input to a separate design or test system that then computes the characteristics of some item or entity being designed or examined. This paper concerns the study of an integrated system that includes both the data and design systems together; therefore, it includes not only data on the property of materials but also knowledge on the geometry of the item being designed. In addition, it includes formulas representing the laws of physical science used to carry out the calculation needed to compute the necessary characteristics of the item. This kind of system can determine the optimum materials for the design of an item, rather than simply retrieve material properties. It may replace the simple search and retrieve systems available today, and it is argued that the complexity of such a system could only be achieved using an object-oriented methodology.

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Smith, FJ
The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Krishnamurthy, MV
The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Tripathy, SR
The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sage, P
The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Developed by Committee: E49
Pages: 183–193
DOI: 10.1520/STP15413S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5312-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-2026-6