TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating Local Primary Dendrite Arm Spacing Characterization Techniques Using Synthetic Directionally Solidified Dendritic Microstructures
AU - Tschopp, Mark A.
AU - Miller, Jonathan D.
AU - Oppedal, Andrew L.
AU - Solanki, Kiran
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge AFOSR for support for this research through contract FA9550-12-1-0135 (PM: Dr. David Stargel, AFOSR/RSA). The authors would like to acknowledge initial discussions with M. Groeber (Air Force Research Laboratory) in the beginning stages of this project. Additionally, the authors acknowledge R. Carino (Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University) for helping implement the scripts utilized herein into a more user-friendly GUI environment.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International.
PY - 2015/10/2
Y1 - 2015/10/2
N2 - Microstructure characterization continues to play an important bridge to understanding why particular processing routes or parameters affect the properties of materials. This statement certainly holds true in the case of directionally solidified dendritic microstructures, where characterizing the primary dendrite arm spacing is vital to developing the process–structure–property relationships that can lead to the design and optimization of processing routes for defined properties. In this work, four series of simulations were used to examine the capability of a few Voronoi-based techniques to capture local microstructure statistics (primary dendrite arm spacing and coordination number) in controlled (synthetically generated) microstructures. These simulations used both cubic and hexagonal microstructures with varying degrees of disorder (noise) to study the effects of length scale, base microstructure, microstructure variability, and technique parameters on the local PDAS distribution, local coordination number distribution, bulk PDAS, and bulk coordination number. The Voronoi tesselation technique with a polygon-side-length criterion correctly characterized the known synthetic microstructures. By systematically studying the different techniques for quantifying local primary dendrite arm spacings, we have evaluated their capability to capture this important microstructure feature in different dendritic microstructures, which can be an important step for experimentally correlating with both processing and properties in single crystal nickel-based superalloys.
AB - Microstructure characterization continues to play an important bridge to understanding why particular processing routes or parameters affect the properties of materials. This statement certainly holds true in the case of directionally solidified dendritic microstructures, where characterizing the primary dendrite arm spacing is vital to developing the process–structure–property relationships that can lead to the design and optimization of processing routes for defined properties. In this work, four series of simulations were used to examine the capability of a few Voronoi-based techniques to capture local microstructure statistics (primary dendrite arm spacing and coordination number) in controlled (synthetically generated) microstructures. These simulations used both cubic and hexagonal microstructures with varying degrees of disorder (noise) to study the effects of length scale, base microstructure, microstructure variability, and technique parameters on the local PDAS distribution, local coordination number distribution, bulk PDAS, and bulk coordination number. The Voronoi tesselation technique with a polygon-side-length criterion correctly characterized the known synthetic microstructures. By systematically studying the different techniques for quantifying local primary dendrite arm spacings, we have evaluated their capability to capture this important microstructure feature in different dendritic microstructures, which can be an important step for experimentally correlating with both processing and properties in single crystal nickel-based superalloys.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11661-015-2964-7
DO - 10.1007/s11661-015-2964-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940726213
SN - 1073-5623
VL - 46
SP - 4610
EP - 4628
JO - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
JF - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science
IS - 10
ER -