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Controlling spatial inhomogeneity in prototypical multiphase microstructures
R. PiaseckiR. WiśniowskiD. FrączekW. Olchawasubject
PhysicsCondensed Matter - Materials ScienceStatistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)Degree (graph theory)Property (programming)0208 environmental biotechnologyPhase (waves)Structure (category theory)Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)FOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and Astronomy02 engineering and technologyRadiusMicrostructureMeasure (mathematics)020801 environmental engineeringStatistical physicsCondensed Matter - Statistical Mechanicsdescription
A wide variety of real random composites can be studied by means of prototypes of multiphase microstructures with a controllable spatial inhomogeneity. To create them, we propose a versatile model of randomly overlapping super-spheres of a given radius and deformed in their shape by the parameter p. With the help of the so-called decomposable entropic measure, a clear dependence of the phase inhomogeneity degree on the values of the parameter p is found. Thus, a leading trend in changes of the phase inhomogeneity can be forecast. It makes searching for possible structure/property relations easier. For the chosen values of p, examples of two and three-phase prototypical microstructures show how the phase inhomogeneity degree evolves at different length scales. The approach can also be applied to preparing the optimal starting configurations in reconstructing real materials.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-15 |