The imaging of failure in structural materials by synchrotron radiation X-ray microtomography

SC Wu, TQ Xiao, PJ Withers - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2017 - Elsevier
The initiation and propagation of short cracks are critical to the detailed understanding of the
failure mechanisms of engineering materials and structures. Therefore, for a safety critical …

Microstructure representation and reconstruction of heterogeneous materials via deep belief network for computational material design

R Cang, Y Xu, S Chen, Y Liu… - Journal of …, 2017 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) aims to accelerate optimal design of
complex material systems by integrating material science and design automation. For …

Hierarchical optimization: Fast and robust multiscale stochastic reconstructions with rescaled correlation functions

MV Karsanina, KM Gerke - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Stochastic reconstructions based on universal correlation functions allow obtaining spatial
structures based on limited input data or to fuse multiscale images from different sources …

Use of X-ray micro-computed tomography for the investigation of drying processes in porous media: A review

R Haide, S Fest-Santini, M Santini - Drying Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Drying processes in porous materials and their optimization are of interest in research and in
many industrial applications. X-ray micro-computed tomography presents a versatile …

Microstructure and mechanical properties of hyperuniform heterogeneous materials

Y Xu, S Chen, PE Chen, W Xu, Y Jiao - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
A hyperuniform random heterogeneous material is one in which the local volume fraction
fluctuations in an observation window decay faster than the reciprocal window volume as …

Direct extraction of spatial correlation functions from limited x-ray tomography data for microstructural quantification

H Li, S Singh, N Chawla, Y Jiao - Materials Characterization, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurately quantifying the microstructure of a heterogeneous material is crucial to
establishing quantitative structure-property relations for material optimization and design …

Higher-order correlation functions in disordered media: Computational algorithms and application to two-phase heterogeneous materials

H Malmir, M Sahimi, Y Jiao - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Macroscopic properties of heterogeneous materials, including thermal and electrical
conductivity, elastic moduli, and fluid permeability, depend crucially on their microstructure …

Correlation-function-based microstructure design of alloy-polymer composites for dynamic dry adhesion tuning in soft gripping

Y Xu, PE Chen, H Li, W Xu, Y Ren, W Shan… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Tunable dry adhesion is a crucial mechanism in compliant manipulation. The gripping force
can be controlled by reversibly varying the physical properties (eg, stiffness) of the …

Realizations of highly heterogeneous collagen networks via stochastic reconstruction for micromechanical analysis of tumor cell invasion

H Nan, L Liang, G Chen, L Liu, R Liu, Y Jiao - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Three-dimensional (3D) collective cell migration in a collagen-based extracellular matrix
(ECM) is among one of the most significant topics in developmental biology, cancer …

Accurate reconstruction of porous materials via stochastic fusion of limited bimodal microstructural data

H Li, PE Chen, Y Jiao - Transport in Porous Media, 2018 - Springer
Porous materials such as sandstones have important applications in petroleum engineering
and geosciences. An accurate knowledge of the porous microstructure of such materials is …