Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems

November 2007
In this issue:
Helping Police Help the Community
Across Enemy Lines
Working Toward Less Reliance on Foreign Oil

CAVS is an interdisciplinary center that provides engineering research, development and technology transfer teams focused on complex technical problems, such as those associated with human mobility. Our development efforts provide short-term solutions relevant to regional manufacturers while the research builds longer-term knowledge needed for sustained economic development. At the same time students gain valuable project experience that compliments their formal classroom learning. These activities are creating a base for economic and community growth....

The mission of CAVS is to develop the people, concepts and knowledge for future transportation and manufacturing needs. This includes research and development (R&D) efforts that support manufacturing, design, innovations, and cost reductions related to the production of future automotive vehicles. These vehicles will have superior quality, advanced features, lower production costs, and shorter development times. At the same time, broad manufacturing and design gains arise from CAVS via leveraging from its underlying technologies. Thus, the CAVS mission includes engineering extension, education, and workforce training for industry...

CAVS P/M R&D team has developed modeling for material characterization including processing, mechanical, thermal, electrical and magnetic properties. The developed material characterization plays a key role to interconnect theory, experimentation, simulation, and material/ process development...

Research in the Computational Manufacturing and Design cluster at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University couples the multidisciplinary research of solid mechanics, material science, physics, and applied mathematics to perform “Cradleto- Grave” history modeling that characterizes a material through its manufacturing process and life cycle. The multiscale physics-based methodology, which employs optimization schemes, can be used to produce higher quality products with shorter lead times at reduced costs...

Our research in the Computational Manufacturing and Design Thrust at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University couples the multidisciplinary research of solid mechanics, material science, physics, and applied mathematics to enable the “Cradle-to-Grave” history modeling/simulation of a material through its manufacturing process and life cycle environments. As such, this multiscale research methodology, which also employs optimization schemes, can be used to produce higher quality products with shorter lead times at reduced costs...