Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 3D Materials Science : held July 8-12, 2012, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, USA

Addressing a critical growth area in materials science, this volume features papers presented at the 2012 International Conference on 3D Materials Science, organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). With the top researchers in the world assessing the state-of-the-art within the various elements of three-dimensional materials science, this collection provides the premier forum for authoritative presentations on all aspects of the science, including characterization, visualization, quantitative analysis, modeling, and investigation of structure-property relationships of materials. Front Matter....Pages iii-xiii Perspectives on Materials Science in 3D....Pages 1-11 3D Investigation of Cracking Behavior in a Ni Superalloy....Pages 13-18 On the Three-Dimensional Microstructure of Martensite in Carbon Steels....Pages 19-24 FIB / SEM Determination of Sub-Surface Damage Caused by Micro-Tribology Scratching of WC/Co Hardmetal Samples....Pages 25-30 3D Characterization of Recrystallization Boundaries....Pages 31-36 Development of Fully Automated Serial-Sectioning 3D Microscope and Topological Approach to Pearlite and Dual-Phase Microstructure in Steels....Pages 37-42 Fragmentation of a Steel Ring under Explosive Loading....Pages 43-48 Quantifying the effect of 3D spatial resolution on the accuracy of microstructural distributions....Pages 49-59 Three-Dimensional Investigation of Void Growth Leading to Fracture in Commercially Pure Titanium....Pages 61-66 Quatification of Primary Phase Undercooling of Rapidly Solidified Droplets with 3D Microtomography....Pages 67-72 3D Microstructural Architectures for Metal and Alloy Components Fabricated by 3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing Technologies....Pages 73-78 Elastic Behavior of the Percolating Eutectic Structure of a High Pressure Die Cast Magnesium Alloy....Pages 79-83 Numerical Simulations of Compression Properties of SiC/Fe-20Cr Co-Continuous Composites....Pages 85-90 Calculation of Lorentz Force Field of the Innovation Cathode Cell....Pages 91-96 Enumeration of Polyhedra for Grain Growth Analysis....Pages 97-106 Distribution of carbide particles and its influence on grain growth of ferrite in Fe-C alloys containing B and V....Pages 107-112 Modeling Grain Boundary Interfaces in Pure Nickel....Pages 113-118 A Toolbox for Geometric Grain Boundary Characterization....Pages 119-124 3D Microstructures of Sb2Te3 Precipitates in PbTe Matrix with Prediction by a Weak Compatibility Condition....Pages 125-130 In Situ Characterisation of Entrainment Defects in Liquid Al-Si-Mg Alloy....Pages 131-136 Shape Analysis and the Classification of Objects....Pages 137-146 Graph Cut Approaches for Materials Segmentation Preserving Shape, Appearance, and Topology....Pages 147-152 Fitting Laguerre Tessellations to the Microstructure of Cellular Materials....Pages 153-158 Simulation of FIB-SEM Images for Segmentation of Porous Microstructures....Pages 159-164 Handling Misalignment and Drift in 3D EBSD Data Sets....Pages 165-170 Optimizing Stochastic Process for Efficient Microstructure Reconstruction....Pages 171-176 Characterization of Pores and Cracks in Underwater Welds by μCT and Digital Optical Microscopy....Pages 177-182 Characterization of Carbonate Rocks through X-Ray Microtomography....Pages 183-188 Subgrain Boundary Identification in 3D EBSD Data through Fast Multiscale Clustering....Pages 189-194 An Automated Multi-Modal Serial Sectioning System for Characterization of Grain-Scale Microstructures in Engineering Materials....Pages 195-202 Ultra Fast Tomography: New Developments for 4D Studies in Material Science....Pages 203-208 Three-Dimensional Characterization of Dislocation-Defect Interactions....Pages 209-214 The Microstructure of RR1000 Nickel-Base Superalloy: The FIB-SEM Dual-Beam Approach....Pages 215-220 3D Analysis of Phase Separation in Ferritic Stainless Steels....Pages 221-226 Micro-Computed Tomography, a 3D Tool for Non-destructive Visualisation and Analysis....Pages 227-232 Sem-Based Electron Tomography of Turfs Comprised of Lineal Structures....Pages 233-238 Back Matter....Pages 239-242