Multiscale thermomechanical analysis of multiphase materials

The thermomechanical simulation of materials with evolving, multiphase microstructures poses various modeling and numerical challenges. For example, the separate phases in a multiphase microstructure can interact with each other during thermal and/or mechanical loading, the effect of which is significantly more complicated than the individual...

Generalized grain cluster method for multiscale response of multiphase materials

A multiscale approach termed the generalized grain cluster method (GGCM) is presented, which can be applied for the prediction of the macroscopic behavior of an aggregate of single crystal grains composing a multiphase material. The GGCM is based on the minimization of a functional that depends on the microscopic deformation gradients in the...