Table 1.
Parameter | Meaning | Theoretical Range | Practical limits tested | ||
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Target microstructure parameters |
L | Size of growth region | [0,0,0] -> [50,50,50] μm | ||
Fibre volume fraction | [0,1] | [0,0.8] | |||
Mean radius | [0.5, 2] μm | ||||
Standard deviation radius | [0.1, 0.5] μm | ||||
GAD |
Global angular dispersion |
Watson: | [4, 100] | ||
ESAG |
[2, 10] | ||||
|
[2, 2] -> [10, 10] |
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Growth algorithm parameters | N | Number of growth nodes | [0,107] | ||
f | Cost function weighting term | [0,1] | [0,0.5] | ||
Fibre collapse initial and subsequent step length | [1, 5], [1, 5] μm | ||||
Dynamic network no. nodes added | [0, 5000] |