New Computational Methodologies for Microstructure Quantification

dc.contributor.authorCatania, Richard Knighten
dc.contributor.committeechairAcar, Pinaren
dc.contributor.committeememberAhmadian, Mehdien
dc.contributor.committeememberMirzaeifar, Rezaen
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-27T08:00:43Zen
dc.date.available2022-05-27T08:00:43Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05-26en
dc.description.abstractThis work explores physics-based and data-driven methods for material property prediction for metallic microstructures while indicating the context and benefit for microstructure- sensitive design. From this, the use of shape moment invariants is offered as solution to quantifying microstructure topology numerically using images. This offers a substantial benefit for computational time since image data is converted to numeric values. The goal of quantifying the image data is to help index grains based on their crystallographic orientation. Additionally, individual grains are isolated in order to investigate the effect of their shapes. After the microstructures are quantified, two methods for identifying the grain boundaries are proposed to make a more comprehensive approach to material property prediction. The grain boundaries as well as the grains of the quantified image are used to train artificial neural networks capable of predicting the material properties of the material. This prediction technique can be used as a tool for a microstructure-sensitive approach to design subtractively manufactured and Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS)-produced metallic materials.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralMaterial properties are dependent on the underlying microstructural features. This work pro- poses numerical methods to quantify topology and grain boundaries of metallic microstruc- tures by developing physics-based and data-driven techniques for subtractively manufactured and Laser Engineered Net Shaping (LENS)-produced materials.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:34544en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110354en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMicrostructureen
dc.subjectGrain Boundaryen
dc.subjectImage Processingen
dc.subjectArtificial Neural Networken
dc.titleNew Computational Methodologies for Microstructure Quantificationen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineMechanical Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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