The microstructure and texture evolution of Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-1Cr-Fe alloy during hot compression were investigated by the electron backscatter diffraction technique. The results reveal that two main texture components containing <100> and <111> fiber textures form after the hot compression. The fraction of each component is mainly controlled by deformation and strain rate. Dynamic strain-induced b...

This thesis project will focus on investigating extensions and improvements to the curve evolution and non-parametric density estimate based image segmentation approach proposed by Kim et al. [13]. One main problem with the algorithm proposed by Kim was that it was based solely on the individual scalar pixel intensities and did not take advantage of the underlying structure of the image. In thi...