Bridging a Mesoscopic Inhomogeneity to Macroscopic Performance of Amorphous Materials in the Framework of the Phase Field Modeling
Time: 2020-01-03
Published By: Xiaoni Tan
Speaker(s): Yasumasa Nishiura(Tohoku University)
Time: 16:00-17:00 January 8, 2020
Venue: Room 29, Quan Zhai, BICMR
One of the big challenges in materials science is to bridge microscopic or mesoscopic properties to macroscopic performance such as fracture toughness. This is particularly interesting for the amorphous materials such as epoxy resins because their micro/meso structures are difficult to characterize so that any information connecting different scales would be extremely useful. At the process level, the polymerization rate can be changed experimentally that influences a lot over the performance of materials, however, it is known that the maximum toughness does not always appear at the maximum polymerization rate, which suggests that some differences in the micro/meso-scopic structure affect the macroscopic property behind. The goal of my talk is to present a framework to bridge a mesoscopic observation of X-ray CT and the criterion of fracture toughness, which is computable in the framework of the phase field modeling. First we classify the data of the X-ray image with different polymerization rate by using two different methods: one is SVD and the other is persistent homology. Secondly we compute a crack propagation of each sample and evaluated a scalar value called the effective toughness (ET) via J-integral, which is one of the good candidates indicating a toughness of material. It turns out that ET reflects the performance of each sample and consistent with the experimental results. There remain many open problems and my presentation is the first step toward our final goal. This is a joint work with Edgar Avalos, Shuangqaun Xie, and Kazuto Akagi of Tohoku University.