Recrystallization microstructure modelling from superimposed deformed microstructure on microstructure model

Characterization and influence of deformation microstructure heterogeneity on recrystallization

The microstructure resulting from plastic deformation of metals typically contains heterogeneity on several length scales. This is also true for samples deformed to large strains, where an important form of heterogeneity is in the variation in microstructural refinement by high angle boundaries. A methodology for quantifying this type of heterogeneity based on the identification of areas classi...

From atoms to microstructure

The Donnan model derived from microstructure.

The ideal Donnan potential of an ionized polyelectrolyte medium is shown to be an approximate solution to a system of Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equations for a periodic array of charged plates in an electrolyte bath. This result, derived using homogenization and scaling methods, demonstrates that the macrocontinuum, thermodynamic Donnan, and statistical mechanical PB models describe the same pheno...

Modelling a Food Microstructure by Random Sets

Starting from scanning electron microscope images of some food products, we generate binary images of composite materials. After measuring the covariance and the probability for segments and for squares to be included in the dominant component, we develop a modelling of the microstructure from random sets obtained by thresholding Gaussian random functions. The covariance function of the underly...

Modelling the Microstructure of Martensitic Steels

A method based on the kinetics of crystal growth has been developed and applied to the computation of three-dimensional microstrucuture in austenite-matensite steels. The detailed crystallography of the transformation is used to model a realistic martensitic microstrucuture during the transformation without an external system of stresses. The interaction energy based on the plastic work model i...