ReMaDe is dedicated to increasing industry's resource efficiency, which is the provision of global materially intensive services (transport, buildings etc.) using less material production from naturally occurring resources.

We have four pillars to our research. Our researchers' projects often span multiple pillars.

  1. Materially Efficient & Resilient Manufacturing
  2. Decarbonization Pathways for Key Engineering Systems
  3. Uncertainty Quantification in Impact Modeling
  4. Design & Manufacturing for High Recycled Content Materials

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Globally, we must reduce humanity's production of emissions-intensive materials to prevent the worst consqeuencs of climate change.


Materially Efficient & Resilient Manufacturing

Topics & Skills: Solid mechanics, Solid-state welding, Finite element analysis, Machine & Tool Design
Sponsors: National Science Foundation (PFI, I-Corps), Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MTRAC, ADVANCE), Ford Motor Company, American Foundry Society, Ductile Iron Society

Decarbonization Pathways for Key Systems & Manufacturing Processes

  • Processes (e.g., Stamping & Additive Manufacturing)
  • Industries (e.g., Steel)
  • Systems (e.g., U.S. transport)

Topics & Skills: Environmental assessment of emerging technologies, Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis, Input-Output Analysis
Sponsors: Ford Motor Company, Mcubed (U-M internal grants), Department of Energy

Uncertainty Quantification and Reduction in Environmental Impact Models

  • Uncertainty quantification (UQ) and Data reconciliation in resource flow maps (e.g., material flow analysis)
  • Bayesian inference techniques to rapidly generate and select candidate model structures and transparently communicate and update the parametric uncertainties as newly collected data are included.
  • Applications in unit manufacturing process (UMP) environmental impact models and material flow analysis (MFA)

Topics & Skills: Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis, Bayesian statistics, Uncertainty Quantification, Optimal Experimental Design
Sponsors: National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company

Design & Manufacturing for High Recycled Content Materials

  • Developing optimal reverse supply chain models for metals and polymers
  • Reducing melt losses in metal reycling
  • Material and product design for Closed-Loop Recycling

Topics & Skills: Supply chain optimization, Metal and polymer recycling systems and processes, Alloy design
Sponsors: Department of Energy (SMIA 1, SMIA 2), Michigan-Cambridge Research Alliance