Inverse Design Optimization of Multicomponent Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 379
Special Issue Editor
Interests: inverse problem algorithms; design of alloys; hybrid optimization algorithms; electro–magneto–hydrodynamics; conjugate heat transfer; optimized cooling of human organs; computational aerodynamics; aerodynamic shape design; acceleration of iterative algorithms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The following is a brief summary to introduce the Special Issue.
There are two conceptually different approaches to the computational design of alloys: direct design and inverse design. The objective of direct design is to find chemical compositions and microstructures that simultaneously extremize a number of macroscopic properties of the designed alloys in a Pareto-optimal sense. This approach often leads to expensive alloys with some macroscopic properties that have been improved beyond what is needed. The objective of inverse design is to find chemical compositions and microstructures that create alloys specifically designed for a particular performance—nothing more and nothing less. For example, with inverse design it is possible to design an alloy that will have specified tensile strength at a specified temperature for a specified time until rupture. The inverse design approach determines not one but a number of alloys, each of which will have the same specified value of properties and morphology, while having different concentrations of each of the alloying elements. This provides the users of inversely designed alloys with high levels of flexibility when creating the alloy because they have the freedom to use the inversely designed chemical composition made of the most readily available and the inexpensive alloying elements. Both design approaches are conceptually applicable to arbitrary metallic alloys with unlimited numbers of alloying elements and design objectives.
This Special Issue of Metals invites full papers presenting any pertinent computational methodologies capable of performing inverse design of metallic alloys.
Prof. George S. Dulikravich
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metallic alloys
- design
- inverse problems
- multi-objective optimization
- chemistry of alloys
- microstructure
- materials design
