| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T23: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling and Applications of Functional Porous Materials
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| Presentation Title |
Uncovering Structure-property Relationships in Complex, Inhomogeneous Materials: High-throughput Calculation of Stochastic Materials |
| Author(s) |
Matthew J. Beck |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Matthew J. Beck |
| Abstract Scope |
The same complexity and diversity that makes porous materials exciting candidates for a host of critical and transformative applications makes efforts to effectively model and design optimal materials extremely challenging. By stochastically generating sets of model representative volume elements capturing key, physically-derived structural features and leveraging high-throughput computational techniques, we can extract both expected bulk effective properties and length-scale-dependent distributions of local properties. These data can be mined to deduce structure property relationships useful for optimizing not only porous materials, but any complex, nanostructured, and/or additively manufactured material for which a fundamental structural “seed description” can be formulated. Focusing on long-fiber-based porous materials, we demonstrate this approach and explore the role of intended and unintended (e.g. defects) structural features in determining observed mechanical behavior of materials with current and potential aerospace applications. |