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MatCASE Materials Computation And Simulation Environment
(http://www.matcase.psu.edu)
Long-Qing ChenDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Supported by NSF under the grant number DMR-0205232
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PIs and collaborators:Zikui Liu (Mater. Sci. &Eng., Penn State)Long-Qing Chen (Mater. Sci. & Eng., Penn State)Padma Raghavan (Computer Science, Penn State)Qiang Du (Mathematics, Penn State)Jorge Sofo (Physics, Penn State)Steve Langer (Math. and Comp. Sci., IT Lab, NIST)Christoph Wolverton (Physics, Ford)
Postdoctors and graduate Students:Maria Emelianenko, Shenyang Hu, Chao Jiang, Manjeera Mantina, Dongwon Shin, Anusha Srirama, Keita Teranishi, Edwin Garcia, Chinnappan Ravi , Yi Wang, Peng Yu, Shihuai Zhou, Wenxiang Zhu
Project Personnel
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MatCASE Objective
Develop a set of integrated computational and information technology tools to predict the relationships among chemical, microstructural, and mechanical properties of multicomponent materials using the technologically important aluminum-based alloys as a model system.
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Chemstry-Microstructure-Properties
microstructureAtomic structure Engine Block
AlNi3'
Ni
Turbine Blade
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Four Major Computational Components
• Finite element analysis of mechanical responses from the simulated microstructures
• First principles calculations of thermodynamic properties, lattice parameters, and kinetic data of unary, binary and ternary compounds
• CALPHAD data optimization of thermodynamic properties, lattice parameters, and kinetic data of multicomponent systems from first-principle calculations and experimental data
• Phase-field prediction of microstructures in 1-3 dimensions
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Experimental data
Mechanical responses of
simulated microstructures
MatCASE Integration of Four Computational Methodologies
Interfacial energies, lattice parameters and elastic constants Kinetic data
Bulk thermodynamic
data
Database for lattice parameters, elastic constants and interfacial
energiesKinetic database
Bulk thermodynamic
database
Microstructure in 2D and 3D
Plasticity of phases Elasticity of
phases
First-principles calculations
CALPHAD
OOF: Object-oriented finite
element analysis
Phase-field simulation
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First-Principles Calculations• Energies of formation of metastable and stable
compounds• Interfacial energies of metastable and stable
phases• Vibrational entropies of metastable and stable
phases• Special Quasirandom Structures (SQS) for
thermodynamic properties of solid solutions• Mixed space cluster expansion / Kinetic Monte
Carlo simulations of pre-precipitation cluster morphologies
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XMg/(XMg+XSi)
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First-Principles Energetics: Al-Mg-Si Precipitates
FP energetics correctly predicted the observed precipitation sequence:
H(SS) H(GP/Pre-) H() H(U1,U2,B,) H() (C. Ravi and C. Wolverton 2004)
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Special Quasirandom Structures (SQS’s):A shortcut to obtaining alloy energetics
Three 16-atom SQS’s were generated for random AxB1-x bcc alloys. They are small supercells which accurately mimic the most relevant correlation functions of the random alloys.
(a) 16-atom SQS for x=0.5 (b)16-atom SQS for x=0.75
A
B
(C. Jiang, C. Wolverton, J. Sofo, L. Q. Chen and Z. K. Liu, 2004)
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Prediction of B2 Stability
(C. Jiang, L. Q. Chen and Z.-K. Liu: 2004)
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First-Principles Predicted GP Zone Nanostructure Evolution in Al-Cu
Solid Solution
Nucleation and Growth Coarsening
t=0 t=8*106s t=2.4*107s t=1.6*108s
Mixed space cluster expansion / Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations(J. Wang, C. Wolverton, Z.K. Liu, S. Muller, L. Q. Chen, 2004)
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2 nm
Simulation:Al-1.0%CuT=373 K, t~1000 days
2 nm
Experiment:Al-1.4%CuT=300 K, t=100 days
HAADF(high-angle annular detector dark-field)
Konno et al., 2001
Comparison of Predicted and Observed GP Zone Nanostructure in Al-Cu
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Mechanical Properties Prediction — Shearing vs. Orowan Strengthening
Increment in CRSS from interfacial & Orowan strengthening
Shearing
Orowan
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CALPHAD Modeling
• Gibbs energy functions of stable and metastable phases and phase diagrams– Input data: thermochemical and phase
equilibrium data
• Lattice parameter
• Atomic mobility
• Automation in modeling
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Al-Cu Phase Diagram
CuAl
Liquid
Fcc
Bcc
Present- - - COST 507
(C.Jiang et al 2004)
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Solvus of Metastable Phases
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Phase-field Simulations of Precipitation in Al-Cu Alloys
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´ Precipitation
Al-1.8at%Cu at 500K with nucleation at dislocations
Time
t=3mins t=8.8mins t=41mins t=85mins
512nm
(S. Y. Hu et al 2004)
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Comparison of ’ Morphologies in 3D
Experiment from H. Weiland Simulation
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0 20 40 60 80 1000.000
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ume
frac
tion
Applied compressive stress (MPa)
1, simulation
3, simulation
1, experiment*
3, experiment*
11= -10MPa 11= - 30MPa
11= - 60MPa
Experiment fromZhu and Starke Jr
11= - 64MPa
time=31hr50nm
Comparison of simulation and experimentof stress aging at T=453K
(Seol et al 2004)
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Phase-Field Simulation on Adaptive Grids by Moving
Mesh PDEs Construct a
mapping from the computational domain to the physical domain (ξ,η)→(x,y) so that the solution in the computational space is “better behaved”.
(ξ,η) (x,y)
Phase variable on physical domain
Phase variable on computational domain (Y. Peng et al 2004)
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A Simple Test Run:Single Particle Growth
Comparison of interfacial contour plots by 64*64 adaptive grid (CPU time: 1 min) and those by 512*512 regular grid (CPU time: 6 mins).
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Handling Topological Changes
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Attractive Features of the Moving Mesh Approach
• Keeps the applicability of the Fourier-Spectral method to efficient numerical solution of the phase-field equations.
• Mesh gradually adapts to the phase variable. Thus particularly suitable for moving interface problems.
• MMPDE can also be solved using semi-implicit Fourier-spectral scheme.
• Monitor function smoothing via convolution can be performed in Fourier-space as well.
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Information Technology Tool Development
• Web-portal for material scientists to explore macrostructural properties of multicomponent alloys
• We are developing:– information baseinformation base of material properties obtained from of material properties obtained from
experiment or simulation, includes lattice structures, experiment or simulation, includes lattice structures, enthalpies, specific heat, potential energies etc. enthalpies, specific heat, potential energies etc.
– Rule databaseRule database of properties of the tools for the main steps, of properties of the tools for the main steps, their underlying models, limitations, verifiable range of their underlying models, limitations, verifiable range of results, errorresults, error states states
• We automate design space exploration by composing knowledge bases with scalable simulation tools for the four main steps
• Back-end of e-laboratory supports wide-area grid computing where local sites can have high-end multiprocessors and clusters
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User View• Users (clients) connect to initiate materials design
via web-portal• Web-portal creates a service to the user and
executes remote tasks• Remote tasks are managed by Globus-enabled
services – Automatically specifies exact set of simulations needed
to compute missing data for a given design
• Our model reuses information in materials databases as much as possible
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Design Challenges• Identifying data necessary for each of the four main steps
• Providing a default form of inputs for each tool (more than one for a step)
• Translating results between tools for successive steps
• Managing workflow of tasks from many clients
• Automatically analyzing intermediate results to provide meaningful simulations (i.e. avoid cascading bad simulation results, detecting failures to converge, etc.)
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Three Part Services-Based System
• A reconfigurable web portal system with 3 main components– Interaction handler
• Gets input from clients and provides intermediate/final results– Analyzer
• Creates instances of interaction and simulation handlers• Manage “rules” for meaningful composition• Bridge between interaction handler and simulation handler for
each client– Simulation handler
• Executes remote tasks using Globus grid-services• Creates instances of local “services” to process input/output
between steps• Transfers input/output for client between the server and remote
computers
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Web-Portal for Design Space Exploration with Distributed HPC
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Sample Screenshot
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MATCASE and beyond…• Forward mode: What are the macro-
structural properties given material specification? (current)
• Reverse mode : What are the materials with the desired macro-structural properties? (future)
– Extensions to knowledge base, automated similarity detection, search through simulation, compact feature representation,…