3D SIMULATION STUDY OF INHOMOGENEOUS MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS EVOLUTION (advantages of visual simulation technique in stereological analysis)

Xiaoyan Song, Markus Rettenmayr, Guoquan Liu
2011 Image Analysis and Stereology  
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 Al3Zr particles that had
more » ... een 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.
doi:10.5566/ias.v22.p163-169 fatcat:jvmowbhusndpdhon6liidgnby4