Machine learning enabled surrogate crystal plasticity model for spatially resolved 3D orientation evolution under uniaxial tension

Abstract: We present a novel machine learning based surrogate modeling method for predicting spatially resolved 3D microstructure evolution of polycrystalline materials under uniaxial tensile loading. Our approach is orders of magnitude faster than the existing crystal plasticity methods enabling the simulation of large volumes that would be otherwise computationally prohibitive. This work is a major step beyond existing ML-based modeling results, which have been limited to either 2D structures or only providing average, rather than local, predictions. We demonstrate the speed and accuracy of our surrogate model approach on experimentally measured microstructure from high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy of a face-centered cubic copper sample, undergoing tensile deformation.