Recent initiatives to accelerate the insertion of materials and link the materials design and systems design processes have called for the advancement of microstructure-property relationships. In order to achieve these goals, the development of digital microstructure models in conjunction with computational methods for simulating material response is a necessity. There have been significant adv...

On the basis of the market microstructure theory and the continuous time stochastic volatilitystyle microstructure model, a discrete time stochastic volatility microstructure model with stateobservability is proposed for describing the dynamics of financial markets. From the discrete time microstructure model proposed, estimates of two immeasurable state variables representing the market excess...

Integration of material composition, microstructure, and mechanical properties with geometry information enables many product development activities, including design, analysis, and manufacturing. In this paper, we investigate the application of image processing methods for constructing models of material microstructure. These microstructure models can be integrated into CAD models to enable th...

The super high strength aluminum alloy ingots with 100 mm in diameter were cast by the process of low-frequency electromagnetic horizontal continuous casting (LFEHC) and the effect of electromagnetic field on the as-cast microstructure was studied. Results show that microstructure of the sample prepared by the LFEHC process was greatly refined. Microstructures at the border and the center of th...

The objective of this work was to introduce a novel method for refining the solidification microstructure. Traditional casting usually solidifies one homogeneous liquid by removing heat from liquid surface, by which the microstructure solely depends on the heat removal rate for the given alloy composition. The newly developed multi-liquid composite simultaneous casting concept raises an alterna...

This paper attempts to investigate the influence of the microstructure and mechanical property changes on sand casting and permanent die casting alloys by grain refinement, modification combined action of both (Al– 3Ti–1B + Al–10Sr) and without grain refinement and modification effect. The microstructures of the castings are studied by optical microscopes. The microstructure and mechanical prop...

We study the large-time behavior of a class of reaction-diffusion systems with constant distributed microstructure arising when modeling diffusion and reaction in structured porous media. The main result of this Note is the following: As t→∞ the macroscopic concentration vanishes, while the microscopic concentrations reach constant concentration profiles independent of the shape of the microstr...

We demonstrate a new technique for selectively growing gold nanoparticles on a patterned three-dimensional (3D) polymer microstructure. The technique integrates 3D direct writing of heterogeneous microstructures with nanoparticle synthesis. A digital micromirror device is employed as a dynamic mask in the digital projection photopolymerization process to build the heterogeneous microstructure l...

Initial condition dependence is the key to understanding the difference between ideal strength and actual strength of both crystalline and amorphous materials. Besides intrinsic structural heterogeneities in metallic glasses (MGs), a class of “extended defects” based on the “connected atomistic free volume” (CAFV) is proposed to define the microstructure (initial condition), which is crucial to...

The microstructure and magnetic properties, I,e. the initial susceptibility, coercivity and saturation magnetic polarization of nanocrystalline Fe73.5-~CoxCuiNb3Sii3.5Bi (x = 0 or 7) alloys with different volume fractions of crystalline and amorphous phases, are investigated. The crystalline phase in both conventionally annealed alloys (823 K for 1 h) has D03 ordered structure. However, after t...