Simulation-Free Determination of Microstructure Representative Volume Element Size via Fisher Scores

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Autores principales: Liu, Wei, Mojumder, Satyajit, Liu, Wing Kam, Chen, Wei, Apley, Daniel W.
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author Liu, Wei
Mojumder, Satyajit
Liu, Wing Kam
Chen, Wei
Apley, Daniel W.
author_facet Liu, Wei
Mojumder, Satyajit
Liu, Wing Kam
Chen, Wei
Apley, Daniel W.
contents A representative volume element (RVE) is a reasonably small unit of microstructure that can be simulated to obtain the same effective properties as the entire microstructure sample. Finite element (FE) simulation of RVEs, as opposed to much larger samples, saves computational expense, especially in multiscale modeling. Therefore, it is desirable to have a framework that determines RVE size prior to FE simulations. Existing methods select the RVE size based on when the FE-simulated properties of samples of increasing size converge with insignificant statistical variations, with the drawback that many samples must be simulated. We propose a simulation-free alternative that determines RVE size based only on a micrograph. The approach utilizes a machine learning model trained to implicitly characterize the stochastic nature of the input micrograph. The underlying rationale is to view RVE size as the smallest moving window size for which the stochastic nature of the microstructure within the window is stationary as the window moves across a large micrograph. For this purpose, we adapt a recently developed Fisher score-based framework for microstructure nonstationarity monitoring. Because the resulting RVE size is based solely on the micrograph and does not involve any FE simulation of specific properties, it constitutes an RVE for any property of interest that solely depends on the microstructure characteristics. Through numerical experiments of simple and complex microstructures, we validate our approach and show that our selected RVE sizes are consistent with when the chosen FE-simulated properties converge.
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spellingShingle Simulation-Free Determination of Microstructure Representative Volume Element Size via Fisher Scores
Liu, Wei
Mojumder, Satyajit
Liu, Wing Kam
Chen, Wei
Apley, Daniel W.
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Materials Science
Machine Learning
Applications
A representative volume element (RVE) is a reasonably small unit of microstructure that can be simulated to obtain the same effective properties as the entire microstructure sample. Finite element (FE) simulation of RVEs, as opposed to much larger samples, saves computational expense, especially in multiscale modeling. Therefore, it is desirable to have a framework that determines RVE size prior to FE simulations. Existing methods select the RVE size based on when the FE-simulated properties of samples of increasing size converge with insignificant statistical variations, with the drawback that many samples must be simulated. We propose a simulation-free alternative that determines RVE size based only on a micrograph. The approach utilizes a machine learning model trained to implicitly characterize the stochastic nature of the input micrograph. The underlying rationale is to view RVE size as the smallest moving window size for which the stochastic nature of the microstructure within the window is stationary as the window moves across a large micrograph. For this purpose, we adapt a recently developed Fisher score-based framework for microstructure nonstationarity monitoring. Because the resulting RVE size is based solely on the micrograph and does not involve any FE simulation of specific properties, it constitutes an RVE for any property of interest that solely depends on the microstructure characteristics. Through numerical experiments of simple and complex microstructures, we validate our approach and show that our selected RVE sizes are consistent with when the chosen FE-simulated properties converge.
title Simulation-Free Determination of Microstructure Representative Volume Element Size via Fisher Scores
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Materials Science
Machine Learning
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15207