About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Materials Informatics to Accelerate Nuclear Materials Investigation
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Presentation Title |
Scaling Ductility from Microscale to Bulk by Coupling Crystal Plasticity Simulations with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks |
Author(s) |
Laura Z. Vietz, Carter K. Cocke, Eduardo A. Trevino, Ashley D. Spear |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Laura Z. Vietz |
Abstract Scope |
Experimentally characterizing bulk mechanical behavior for certain materials, including nuclear materials used in harsh operating environments, can be challenging and cost prohibitive. Some cases are limited to small-scale testing, leading to size effects for samples below the representative volume element (RVE), or the smallest volume of material above which a property of interest converges to that of bulk material. Volumes smaller than the RVE, called statistical volume elements (SVEs), exhibit scattered responses. This research aims to link microstructure-dependent SVE-derived ductility to bulk-scale ductility by coupling high-throughput numerical simulation with machine learning. As a proof-of-concept, a damage-enabled elasto-viscoplastic fast Fourier transform framework simulated the mechanical response of 3D SVE microstructures for multiple model materials. Images of the SVE microstructures and their corresponding ductility values are used to train a 3D convolutional neural network to predict bulk-scale ductility. This research could enable cost-effective methods for characterizing bulk materials by testing micro/nanoscale specimens. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
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Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Mechanical Properties, Machine Learning |