Recent progress in application of digital/virtual microstructure models in the area of metals
engineering science is presented within the paper. First, various approaches to digital …

As the computational capability of modern computers increases, the Crystal Plasticity Finite
Element Method (CPFEM) becomes more and more popular in materials science to model …

The globularization of titanium alloy with lamellar colony during hot working is an important
way to obtain fine and homogeneous microstructure which has excellent mechanical …

The deformation and strain hardening due to dislocation slip and twinning in Hadfield steels
is investigated with a crystal plasticity model. A phenomenological interaction and hardening …

The mechanisms controlling the fatigue response of an A357-T6 cast aluminium alloy under
cyclic torsional loading are investigated. Surface crack monitoring coupled with Electron …

The tensile behavior of individual struts extracted from an open-cell aluminum foam is
investigated here. X-ray microtomography is used to characterize the initial state of the struts …

The present work addresses the mechanisms of plasticity and damage nucleation in a Ti-6Al-
4V alloy and its laser weld. To this end, in situ tensile tests are performed in a Scanning …

Final properties of metal alloys are directly related to their microstructure, inherited from the
processing route. Dynamic (DRX) and post-dynamic recrystallization (PDRX) mechanisms …

Grain refinement due to severe plastic deformation is simulated using the crystal plasticity
finite element method in the total Lagrangian setting. A rate-independent model with the …

In this study, finite element (FE) modeling of open-cell aluminum foams in tension was
performed based on laboratory X-ray tomography scans of the materials at two different …