Table 1.
Summary of ConFiG parameters split into parameters which define the target microstructural morphology and parameters which define the instantiation of the growth algorithm. For each parameter the theoretical range is reported as well as the practical range that has been tested so far.
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] | ||||
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[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] |