Path Forward: Materials Data Modernization for ASME Codes and Standards in the Artificial Intelligence Era
By:
Ren, Weiju
Book Title:
Proceedings of the ASME 2023 Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference
Publication Date:
November 9, 2023
Publisher Location:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, New York, United States of America
Conference Name:
2023 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP)
Conference Location:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Conference Sponsor:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Abstract
Development of the ASME Materials Properties Database was initiated in the early 2010s to support the ASME Codes and Standards. As information technologies advance at an accelerated pace with the artificial intelligence era on the horizon, the ASME Materials Properties Database must be further modernized from a database to a knowledgebase to ride the wave of digital information revolution and effectively support the ASME Codes and Standards in the new era.
This paper is intended to provide an overview of the ASME Materials Properties Database and discuss a roadmap for its future development to facilitate understanding of and participation from different sectors of the Codes and Standards community. It first reviews the basic concepts of data, information, knowledge, database, and database system; as well as the pros and cons in different types of data management, and then discusses the path forward for a desired evolution of the database into a self-explanatory and machine-readable knowledgebase that is consistent with human cognitive processes for the Codes and Standards development and furthermore provides resources for data processing and analysis to reach an eventual goal of streamlining the Codes and Standards development from the initial inquiry, throughout data submission, analysis, …, to Codes and Standards rule establishment for final publication.