Static friction (stiction) in control valves is an often unrecognized problem which can lead tooscillating process variables. Therefore it is important to detect stiction at an early stage as the reason for oscillatio...
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Static friction (stiction) in control valves is an often unrecognized problem which can lead tooscillating process variables. Therefore it is important to detect stiction at an early stage as the reason for oscillation. This work presents a new and robust method which uses the pattern recognition with principal component analysis for stiction detection.
Important physical properties such as yield strength, elastic modulus, and thermal conductivity depend on the material microstructure. Realization of optimal microstructures is important for hardware components in aer...
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The effect of structural relaxations in alloys is described using a multibody energy expansion formalism. N-body potentials in the multibody expansion are computed from energies of isolated clusters, which, in turn, a...
The effect of structural relaxations in alloys is described using a multibody energy expansion formalism. N-body potentials in the multibody expansion are computed from energies of isolated clusters, which, in turn, are calculated from empirical potentials or self-consistent quantum mechanical calculations. Convergence characteristics of multibody expansions (MBEs) are improved by weighting energies obtained from various truncations of many-body expansions in a method called weighted MBE (WMBE). It is shown that multibody expansions of many-atom systems can be efficiently constructed using interpolation of isolated cluster energies from databases. In contrast to the method of cluster expansion, WMBE focuses on positional degrees of freedom and, hence, explicitly handles structural relaxations during computations of stable atom clusters and periodic or amorphous phase structures.
A coupled thermomechanical, thermal transport and segregation analysis of aluminum alloys solidifying on uneven surfaces is presented. The uneven surfaces are modelled as sinusoids with different wavelengths and ampli...
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A coupled thermomechanical, thermal transport and segregation analysis of aluminum alloys solidifying on uneven surfaces is presented. The uneven surfaces are modelled as sinusoids with different wavelengths and amplitudes. Phenomena occurring during early stages of solidification play an important role in the formation of surface defects. At the mold-metal interface, formation of air-gaps leads to variations in heat flux from the solidifying shell to the mold. The heat flux is either determined from the contact pressure during perfect contact or through air-gap sizes during imperfect contact (air-gap nucleation). The effects of inverse segregation, arising from shrinkage driven flow in the melt, on nucleation of air-gaps and evolution of stresses in the solidifying shell are examined. The present finite element based numerical model consists of a volume-averaged solidification model coupled with an elasto-viscoplastic deformation model in the solidifying shell with air-gap nucleation and imperfect contact at the metal-mold interface. For different sinusoidal topographies, a particular wavelength that leads to reduction in equivalent stresses and growth front morphology unevenness, in the evolving solid shell, is sought for different aluminum alloys. The current analysis will be extended to include the effects of mold coatings and surface roughness of molds on air-gap formation and stress development.
A level set method combining features of front tracking methods and fixed domain methods is presented to model microstructure evolution in the solidification of multi-component multi-phase alloy systems. Phase boundar...
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A level set method combining features of front tracking methods and fixed domain methods is presented to model microstructure evolution in the solidification of multi-component multi-phase alloy systems. Phase boundaries are explicitly tracked by solving the multi-phase level set equations. Diffused interfaces are constructed by extending a small width in both directions from these explicitly tracked phase boundaries. Based on the constructed artificial diffused interfaces, volume-averaging techniques are applied for energy, species and momentum transport. This sacrifice of accuracy by adopting a diffused interface for computational convenience is small considering that the interfaces are still explicitly tracked. By avoiding explicit application of temperature essential boundary conditions on the freezing front, the numerical scheme is energy conserving and the numerical results insensitive to the mesh size. For the numerical analysis of melt flow, a SUPG (streamline-upwind/Petrov-Galerkin), PSPG (pressure stabilizing/Petrov-Galerkin) and DSPG (Darcy stabilizing/ Petrov-Galerkin) stabilized velocity-pressure finite element algorithm is adopted. Microstructure evolution in multi-component alloy systems is solved directly using input from phase diagrams. This avoids the difficulty of parameter identification needed in most diffused interface models, and allows easy application to the solidification of various practical alloy systems. Comparable accuracy is observed to front tracking and phase field models in a number of examples available in the literature. Computational techniques including fast marching and narrow band computing are utilized to speed up the level set computations. Adaptive mesh refinement in the rapidly varying interface region makes the method practical for coupling phenomena in meso- and macro-scales during the solidification process.
A novel methodology that combines recent advances in computational statistics and reduced-order modeling is presented to explore the application of Bayesian statistical inference to a stochastic inverse problem in rad...
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A Neural Network Model is developed for a Kraft digester which is a fundamental stage in the pulp production. A deterministic model is used to describe the main features of the process and will provide the data to ver...
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A Neural Network Model is developed for a Kraft digester which is a fundamental stage in the pulp production. A detenninistic model is used to describe the main features of the process and will provide the data to ver...
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A Neural Network Model is developed for a Kraft digester which is a fundamental stage in the pulp production. A detenninistic model is used to describe the main features of the process and will provide the data to verify the performance of the artificial neural network modeling. The paper shows that the artificial neural network is a good way to represent the process since it gives equivalent results when compared to deterministic model, and it is easier and cheaper to be developed.
In this work, we present a gradient optimization technique for optimizing deformation processes. The optimization is based on the continuum sensitivity method (CSM). CSM involves differentiation of the governing field...
In this work, we present a gradient optimization technique for optimizing deformation processes. The optimization is based on the continuum sensitivity method (CSM). CSM involves differentiation of the governing field equations of the direct problem (constitutive, contact and kinematic problems) with respect to the design variables and development of the weak forms for the corresponding continuum sensitivity equations. The present 3D developments involve a novel regularized approach to the contact sensitivity problem that addresses the non‐differentiability of the contact constraints. A relevant 3D die design problem is considered highlighting the features of the metal forming design simulator developed.
Microstructural information is fundamental to determining the critical properties of today’s high performance materials. Hence, there is a need for a representation that can quantify all the microstructural elements ...
Microstructural information is fundamental to determining the critical properties of today’s high performance materials. Hence, there is a need for a representation that can quantify all the microstructural elements through the analysis of digitized images. This paper addresses representation through the creation of a dynamic microstructure library. The paper focuses on the application of machine learning theory for the creation of a library that is trained by experimentally or computationally obtained microstructure snapshots. Support vector machines (SVM) are used to classify microstructure snapshots based on its features into various classes. An incremental‐principal component analysis (PCA) method is employed within image classes to constantly update the microstructure basis and numerically quantify the microstructural features.
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