Journal
EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS
Volume 61, Issue 9, Pages 1489-1502Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11340-021-00758-x
Keywords
Crack initiation; Crack propagation; Microstructure; Data fusion; Data-driven methods; Deep learning; Multimodal data registration
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- Projekt DEAL
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The study aims to address the lack of understanding in high cycle fatigue mechanisms by proposing a combined experimental and data post-processing workflow to establish multimodal fatigue crack initiation and propagation data sets, thus driving the digital transformation of materials.
Background Early fatigue mechanisms for various materials are yet to be unveiled for the (very) high-cycle fatigue (VHCF) regime. This can be ascribed to a lack of available data capturing initial fatigue damage evolution, which continues to adversely affect data scientists and computational modeling experts attempting to derive microstructural dependencies from small sample size data and incomplete feature representations. Objective The aim of this work is to address this lack and to drive the digital transformation of materials such that future virtual component design can be rendered more reliable and more efficient. Achieving this relies on fatigue models that comprehensively capture all relevant dependencies. Methods To this end, this work proposes a combined experimental and data post-processing workflow to establish multimodal fatigue crack initiation and propagation data sets efficiently. It evolves around fatigue testing of mesoscale specimens to increase damage detection sensitivity, data fusion through multimodal registration to address data heterogeneity, and image-based data-driven damage localization. Results A workflow with a high degree of automation is established, that links large distortion-corrected microstructure data with damage localization and evolution kinetics. The workflow enables cycling up to the VHCF regime in comparatively short time spans, while maintaining unprecedented time resolution of damage evolution. Resulting data sets capture the interaction of damage with microstructural features and hold the potential to unravel a mechanistic understanding. Conclusions The proposed workflow lays the foundation for future data mining and data-driven modeling of microstructural fatigue by providing statistically meaningful data sets extendable to a wide range of materials.
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