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Hexahedral Mesh Generation for Computational Materials Modeling

Procedia Engineering

Owen, Steven J.; Brown, Judith A.; Ernst, Corey D.; Lim, Hojun; Long, Kevin N.

A parallel, adaptive overlay grid procedure is proposed for use in generating all-hex meshes for stochastic (SVE) and representative (RVE) volume elements in computational materials modeling. The mesh generation process is outlined including several new advancements such as data filtering to improve mesh quality from voxelated and 3D image sources, improvements to the primal contouring method for constructing material interfaces and pillowing to improve mesh quality at boundaries. We show specific examples in crystal plasticity and syntactic foam modeling that have benefitted from the proposed mesh generation procedure and illustrate results of the procedure with several practical mesh examples.

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Creating physically-based three-dimensional microstructures: Bridging phase-field and crystal plasticity models

Lim, Hojun; Owen, Steven J.; Abdeljawad, Fadi F.; Hanks, Byron; Battaile, Corbett C.

In order to better incorporate microstructures in continuum scale models, we use a novel finite element (FE) meshing technique to generate three-dimensional polycrystalline aggregates from a phase field grain growth model of grain microstructures. The proposed meshing technique creates hexahedral FE meshes that capture smooth interfaces between adjacent grains. Three dimensional realizations of grain microstructures from the phase field model are used in crystal plasticity-finite element (CP-FE) simulations of polycrystalline a -iron. We show that the interface conformal meshes significantly reduce artificial stress localizations in voxelated meshes that exhibit the so-called "wedding cake" interfaces. This framework provides a direct link between two mesoscale models - phase field and crystal plasticity - and for the first time allows mechanics simulations of polycrystalline materials using three-dimensional hexahedral finite element meshes with realistic topological features.

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