15 research outputs found
Review of the Synergies Between Computational Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Materials Across Length Scales
With the increasing interplay between experimental and computational
approaches at multiple length scales, new research directions are emerging in
materials science and computational mechanics. Such cooperative interactions
find many applications in the development, characterization and design of
complex material systems. This manuscript provides a broad and comprehensive
overview of recent trends where predictive modeling capabilities are developed
in conjunction with experiments and advanced characterization to gain a greater
insight into structure-properties relationships and study various physical
phenomena and mechanisms. The focus of this review is on the intersections of
multiscale materials experiments and modeling relevant to the materials
mechanics community. After a general discussion on the perspective from various
communities, the article focuses on the latest experimental and theoretical
opportunities. Emphasis is given to the role of experiments in multiscale
models, including insights into how computations can be used as discovery tools
for materials engineering, rather than to "simply" support experimental work.
This is illustrated by examples from several application areas on structural
materials. This manuscript ends with a discussion on some problems and open
scientific questions that are being explored in order to advance this
relatively new field of research.Comment: 25 pages, 11 figures, review article accepted for publication in J.
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Direct Measurement of 2D and 3D Interprecipitate Distance Distributions from Atom-Probe Tomographic Reconstructions
Edge-to-edge interprecipitate distance distributions are critical for
predicting precipitation strengthening of alloys and other physical phenomena.
A method to calculate this 3D distance and the 2D interplanar distance from
atom-probe tomographic data is presented. It is applied to nanometer-sized
Cu-rich precipitates in an Fe-1.7 at.% Cu alloy. Experimental interprecipitate
distance distributions are discussed
Best-Fit Ellipsoids of Atom-Probe Tomographic Data to Study Coalescence of Gamma Prime (L1_2) Precipitates in Ni-Al-Cr
An algorithm is presented to fit precipitates in atom probe tomographic data
sets as equivalent ellipsoids. Unlike previous techniques, which measure only
the radius of gyration, these ellipsoids retain the moments of inertia and
principle axes of the original precipitate, preserving crystallographic
orientational information. The algorithm is applied to study interconnected
gamma prime precipitates (L1_2) in the Gamma-matrix (FCC) of a Ni-Al-Cr alloy.
The precipitates are found to coagulate along -type directions.Comment: Accepted for publication in Scripta Materialia, added information
about local magnification effect
© 2006 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland Creep of Al-Sc Microalloys with Rare-Earth Element Additions
Abstract. Cast and aged Al-Sc microalloys are creep-resistant to 300�, due to the blocking of dislocations by nanosize, coherent Al3Sc (L12) precipitates. Rare-earth elements substitute for Sc in these precipitates, leading to a higher number density of smaller precipitates, which have a greater lattice-parameter mismatch with Al than in the Al-Sc binary microalloy. This leads to an improvement in both ambient temperature microhardness and high temperature creep. Creep threshold stresses of Al-Sc-RE (RE = Y, Dy, or Er) at 300 � are higher than for Al-Sc and Al-Sc-M (M = Mg, Ti, or Zr) microalloys. This is in agreement with a dislocation climb model that includes the elastic stress fields of the precipitates