Alloy 718 is a unique superalloy that has been in use for a number of years. It also has the distinction to be utilized throughout the aerospace and general industrial communities. The applications for this material are often very unique and require tailoring of the microstructure and subsequently the mechanical properties to meet these specific needs. To support optimization of Alloy 718 mecha...

1 Abstract This paper describes a topology optimization method for structures in electromagnetic materials. The material structures that exhibit special characteristics in terms of the repulsion of electromagnetic waves tend to be configured as periodical composite structures built of two or more materials. Generally termed “metamaterials”, these sometimes have especially unusual or even counte...

Results from a numerical study examining micro-/macrorelations linking local geometry parameters to sound absorption properties are presented. For a hexagonal structure of solid fibers, the porosity phi, the thermal characteristic length Lambda('), the static viscous permeability k(0), the tortuosity alpha(infinity), the viscous characteristic length Lambda, and the sound absorption coefficient...

Article history: Received: 13.04.2015. Received in revised form: 13.07.2015. Accepted: 15.07.2015. In this article, both chemical composition and structure of a high chromium iron hammer head were designed and analyzed respectively. Also, the casting process was investigated and optimized through numerical simulation using commercial software View Cast. On the basis of numerical simulation and ...

An extension of current methodologies is introduced for optimization of graded microstructure subject to local stress criteria. The method is based on new multiscale stress criteria given by macrostress modulation functions. The modulation functions quantify the intensity of local stress fluctuations at the scale of the microstructure due to the imposed macroscopic stress. The methodology is il...

Material property evolution during processing is governed by the evolution of the underlying microstructure. We present an efficient technique for tailoring texture development and thus, optimizing properties in forming processes involving polycrystalline materials. The deformation process simulator allows simulation of texture formation using a continuum representation of the orientation distr...

Muddy intercalation is one kind of rock’s secondary structural surface, where the failure of instability between strata occurred. Mechanical behaviour of muddy intercalation directly affects the stability of the rock mass. Starting from the micro-structure of Muddy intercalation, revealing its macroscopic mechanical characteristic is of great significance to the stability and optimization desig...

The transverse relaxation time, T2, of hyperpolarized helium-3 in the lungs is a measure of the MR signal duration and it is an important parameter for pulse sequence optimization and image contrast. The T2 has also shown promise in characterizing lung microstructure due to its sensitivity to local gradients caused by gas-tissue interfaces, whose abundance per unit volume changes with lung infl...