Cellular automata simulations of the sintering behavior of ceramics driven by surface energy reduction

A cellular automata model has been developed to study the sintering behavior of ceramic particles. In this model, the only physical rule that drives the evolution of the system is to reduce the energy at the interface between the mass cells and the void cells. The meaning of several computational pa...

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Autores: Garrido-Regife, Laura, Jiménez-Morales, F., González-Sánchez, Manuela, Rivero-Antúnez, Pedro, Morales-Flórez, Víctor
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2024
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/364672
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/364672
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Cellular automata
Neck formation
Sintering behavior
Vermicular structure
Descrição
Resumo:A cellular automata model has been developed to study the sintering behavior of ceramic particles. In this model, the only physical rule that drives the evolution of the system is to reduce the energy at the interface between the mass cells and the void cells. The meaning of several computational parameters, such as particle size or computational temperature, were investigated. Experiments of partial sintering of spherical particles of silica were performed and it was verified that this model successfully mimics the neck formation. Moreover, other experimental evidences of the stages of the densification, such as the formation of the intermediate vermicular microstructure or the dependence of porosity with temperature, were also qualitatively simulated.