Author/Editor     Song, Xiaoyan; Rettenmayr, Markus; Liu, Guoquan
Title     3D simulation study of inhomogeneous microstructure and its evolution (advantages of visual simulation techniques in stereological analysis)
Type     članek
Source     Image Anal Stereol
Vol. and No.     Letnik 22, št. 3
Publication year     2003
Volume     str. 163-9
Language     eng
Abstract     A 3D Monte Carlo technique has been used to simulate a complex process of recrystallization in a material containing precipitates after graded deformation. By the simulation model, the inhomogeneous deformed microstructure and its evolution during subsequent annealing were directly displayed; moreover, the locally varying recrystallized microstructure was quantitatively analyzed. The simulation results were well verified by experiments with an aluminum alloy containing A13Zr particles that had been subjected to deformation and annealing for recrystallization. In the stereological analysis of a non-random microstructure and its evolution kinetics, the visual simulation technique showed apparent advantages for sampling, detection and measuring.
Descriptors     MATERIALS TESTING
IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED
MONTE CARLO METHOD
CRYSTALLIZATION
ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS
COMPUTER SIMULATION