How to generate the .VTK files of local dislocation density for each grain

ripening phenomena, dislocations, grainboundary topology
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How to generate the .VTK files of local dislocation density for each grain

Post by Junny » Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:57 pm

Dear Bernd,

I am thinking of simulating the recovery/recrystallization behavior of austenite grains during isothermal/continuous heating. Following one of the example files, I realized that I need a file, which contains the dislocation density (gradient) in the individual grains. Normally one can get from the crystal plasticity simulation output. However, I want to introduce the local dislocation densities manually. Would that be possible? What should be the format, e.g. number of columns, grain numbers etc? Thanks in advance!

With kind regards,
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Re: How to generate the .VTK files of local dislocation density for each grain

Post by ralph » Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:14 pm

HI Junny,

see the ReX_local_recovery example for reference.
In this example, the initial grain structure (grain IDs) and the local dislocation densities are read from a VTK file. It is an ASCII file which can examine in a normel editor.

A 'structured points' dataset with 'CELL_DATA' fields are used,
i.e. the number of nodes of the strutured grid is given in the line

DIMENSIONS 410 2 318

and the number of voxel/cells in the line

CELL_DATA 129653
( 129653 = 409 * 317 )

The number of data values in each line of a field is (nearly) arbitrary.

Regards,
Ralph

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Re: How to generate the .VTK files of local dislocation density for each grain

Post by Junny » Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:15 am

Dear Ralph,

Thank you for your kind quick response and the suggestions.

I have a new question regarding defining the spatial distributions of the dislocation density within a grain. In the .rhoD file for the dislocation density distribution, for the example ReX_local_recovery, the total dimension is 409*317 in XZ plane. While the dislocation densities numbers was listed in the form of 14406 (rows) * 9 (columns). The same format is found in the korn vtk file. How they correlate to the spatial grain distributions.

I want to introduce a higher dislocation density close to the grain boundary than in the center of the grains on purpose. How can I manipulate this while writing the .vtk file?

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Re: How to generate the .VTK files of local dislocation density for each grain

Post by ralph » Fri Mar 17, 2017 11:34 am

The cell data is interpreted in the order X, Y, Z dimension. The number of columns, i.e. line breaks, are ignored in VTK.
That corresponds to the following loop:
for ( z = 0; z < cellsInZDimension; z++ )
for ( y = 0; y < cellsInYDimension; y++ )
for ( x = 0; x < cellsInXDimension; x++ )
grid[x,y,z] = readNextData

If you already have a VTK data field for your grain structure, you can read it in script and write the corresponding rhoD dependent of grain boundaries.

Best,
Ralph

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