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Grain Boundary Conformed Volumetric Mesh Generation from a Three-Dimensional Voxellated Polycrystalline Microstructure

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We present a new comprehensive scheme for generating grain boundary conformed, volumetric mesh elements from a three-dimensional voxellated polycrystalline microstructure. From the voxellated image of a polycrystalline microstructure obtained from the Monte Carlo Potts model in the context of isotropic normal grain growth simulation, its grain boundary network is approximated as a curvature-maintained conformal triangular surface mesh using a set of in-house codes. In order to improve the surface mesh quality and to adjust mesh resolution, various re-meshing techniques in a commercial software are applied to the approximated grain boundary mesh. It is found that the aspect ratio, the minimum angle and the Jacobian value of the re-meshed surface triangular mesh are successfully improved. Using such an enhanced surface mesh, conformal volumetric tetrahedral elements of the polycrystalline microstructure are created using a commercial software, again. The resultant mesh seamlessly retains the short- and long-range curvature of grain boundaries and junctions as well as the realistic morphology of the grains inside the polycrystal. It is noted that the proposed scheme is the first to successfully generate three-dimensional mesh elements for polycrystals with high enough quality to be used for the microstructure-based finite element analysis, while the realistic characteristics of grain boundaries and grains are maintained from the corresponding voxellated microstructure image.

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This work was supported by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (MSIP) (No. NRF-2015R1A5A1037627).

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea

    Myeong-Jin Lee, Young-Ju Jeon, Ga-Eun Son, Sihwa Sung, Ju-Young Kim & Sukbin Lee

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea

    Heung Nam Han

  3. The 4th Research and Development Institute, Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Daejeon, 34060, Republic of Korea

    Soo Gyeong Cho & Sang-Hyun Jung

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Lee, MJ., Jeon, YJ., Son, GE. et al. Grain Boundary Conformed Volumetric Mesh Generation from a Three-Dimensional Voxellated Polycrystalline Microstructure. Met. Mater. Int. 24, 845–859 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-018-0083-x

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