Materials State Awareness: What Might be Possible?

Materials State Awareness describes the prospect of knowing, either in a truly quantitative sense or (arguably) a qualitative sense, the instantaneous state of key material parameters (e.g., composition, microstructure, defect structures) during service. To achieve materials state awareness, it is necessary to consider non-destructive approaches that can be used to derive self-consistent materials state instantiations, and to develop an integrated computational materials engineering approach for the prediction of such non-destructive signals.  In this talk, we present a potential framework, including new tools, and seek to engage key stakeholders in assessing the need and opportunities in this area.