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In Fall 2013, the Materials Science faculty separated from the MEMS Department and formed the new department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering.
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Item Self-supervised learning and prediction of microstructure evolution with convolutional recurrent neural networks(Elsevier, 2021) Yang, Kaiqi; Cao, Yifan; Zhang, Youtian; Fan, Shaoxun; Tang, Ming; Aberg, Daniel; Sadigh, Babak; Zhou, FeiMicrostructural evolution is a key aspect of understanding and exploiting the processing-structure-property relationship of materials. Modeling microstructure evolution usually relies on coarse-grained simulations with evolution principles described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Here we demonstrate that convolutional recurrent neural networks can learn the underlying physical rules and replace PDE-based simulations in the prediction of microstructure phenomena. Neural nets are trained by self-supervised learning with image sequences from simulations of several common processes, including plane-wave propagation, grain growth, spinodal decomposition, and dendritic crystal growth. The trained networks can accurately predict both short-term local dynamics and long-term statistical properties of microstructures assessed herein and are capable of extrapolating beyond the training datasets in spatiotemporal domains and configurational and parametric spaces. Such a data-driven approach offers significant advantages over PDE-based simulations in time-stepping efficiency and offers a useful alternative, especially when the material parameters or governing PDEs are not well determined.