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Scenario for Data Exchange at the Microstructure Scale

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Microstructures represent the key to interoperability between continuum models operating at the process scale and discrete models and tools describing atoms/electrons. They also provide the link between experimental materials characterisation and the virtual world. The present paper introduces a microstructure state as the central information providing the link across different length scales and along the temporal evolution of a component. Different ways of generating and representing the microstructure state are categorized and related to different classes of models acting on that state. A pragmatic way of digitally storing the microstructure state being based on the hierarchical data format HDF5 is proposed.

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The present work is based on the activities within the European Coordination and Support Action ICMEg (Grant EU FP7 6067114). It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 723867 and from the on-going Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production Technologies for High Wage Countries” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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  1. Access e. V, Intzestr.5, 52062, Aachen, Germany

    G . J. Schmitz

  2. Steel Institute (IEHK), RWTH Aachen University, Intzestr.1, 52072, Aachen, Germany

    H. Farivar & U. Prahl

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Schmitz, G...J., Farivar, H. & Prahl, U. Scenario for Data Exchange at the Microstructure Scale. Integr Mater Manuf Innov 6, 127–133 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40192-017-0092-5

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