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New Computational Methodologies for Microstructure Quantification

Abstract

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This 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.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mechanical Engineering
Department dc:contributor.department
Mechanical Engineering
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2022

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Catania, Richard Knight
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Acar, Pinar
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Ahmadian, Mehdi
  • Mirzaeifar, Reza

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:34544
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/110354

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2026-07-22
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citation

Catania, Richard Knight. New Computational Methodologies for Microstructure Quantification. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/110354