Tuesday, May 23

MS21
Four Monologues on Sintering

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Independence B

Sintering is one of the most important industrial processes nowadays, with applications ranging from MEMS and microelectronics to space and automotive industries. Nevertheless, it is, arguably, one of the least understood industrial processes. The reason for this is that sintering is a result of complex physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena working at different length scales which traditionally were modeled separately. In this minisymposium, the speakers will present a discussion of several modeling efforts -- atomistic (molecular dynamics), mesoscopic (Monte-Carlo simulation of grain growth, pore migration and annihilation) and continuum (plastic and nonlinear-viscous models) - with emphasis on establishing connections between the length scales.

Organizers: Michael V. Braginsky and Veena Tikare
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA
10:00-10:25 Multimillion Atom Simulation of Sintering and Consolidation
Priya Vashishta, Kenji Tsuruta, Rajiv Kalia, and Aiichiro Nakano, Louisiana State University, USA
10:30-10:55 A Kinetic Monte-Carlo Model of Microstructural Evolution During Sintering
Michael Braginsky and Veena Tikare, Organizers
11:00-11:25 Simulation and Modeling of Sintering on a Mesoscale
Wendy Zhang, Oakland University, USA; Ian Gladwell, Southern Methodist University, USA; Jeffrey W. Bullard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; Joachim H. Schneibel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; and Pavlo P. Sachenko, Oakland University, USA
11:30-11:55Continuum Modeling of Consolidation Processing of Porous and Powder Materials
Eugene A. Olevsky, San Diego State University, USA

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