Quantifying the debonding of inclusions through tomography and computational homology.

Lu, Wei-Yang ; Johnson, George C. (University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA) ; Mota, Alejandro ; Foulk, James W., III ; Jin, Huiqing

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Aluminium;    Statistics;    Alloys;    Synchrotron Radiation;    Computerized Tomography;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1008104
RP-ID  :  SAND2010-6446
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  1008104

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report describes a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project to use of synchrotron-radiation computed tomography (SRCT) data to determine the conditions and mechanisms that lead to void nucleation in rolled alloys. The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has provided SRCT data of a few specimens of 7075-T7351 aluminum plate (widely used for aerospace applications) stretched to failure, loaded in directions perpendicular and parallel to the rolling direction. The resolution of SRCT data is 900nm, which allows elucidation of the mechanisms governing void growth and coalescence. This resolution is not fine enough, however, for nucleation. We propose the use statistics and image processing techniques to obtain sub-resolution scale information from these data, and thus determine where in the specimen and when during the loading program nucleation occurs and the mechanisms that lead to it. Quantitative analysis of the tomography data, however, leads to the conclusion that the reconstruction process compromises the information obtained from the scans. Alternate, more powerful reconstruction algorithms are needed to address this problem, but those fall beyond the scope of this project.