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   Left: Schematic of computational reconstruction with
meshed sample plane, detector and projection geometry.
Center: A sub-region of a reconstructed microstructure.
Colors are coded to the local crystallographic orientations
(J. Lind thesis, 2013). Right: Three dimensional
reconstructed copper microstructure (R. Pokharel thesis
2013).
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R. M. Suter Research Group
High Energy X-rays Applied to
Microstructure Science
Email: suter@andrew.cmu.edu
 
Recent Publications (2014 - 2020)
- Y-F.  Shen,  H.  Liu,  and  R.M.  Suter,  “Voxel-based
strain tensors from near-field High Energy Diffraction
Microscopy,”  Current  Opinion  in  Solid  State  and
Materials Science, 2020, article
- D.B.
Menasche, P.A. Shade and R.M. Suter, “Accuracy
and  precision  of  near-field  HEDM  forward-model
based  microstructure  reconstructions,”  Journal  of
Applied Crystallography, 53, 107-116 (2020). article
- Y.-F.  Shen,  S.  Maddali,  D.  Menasche,  and  R.
M.  Suter,  A.  Bhattacharya,  G.S.  Rohrer,  “The
Importance of Outliers: A Three Dimensional Study
of Coarsening in in Alpha Phase Iron,” Phys. Rev.
Materials, 3, 063611 (2019). article
- A.   Bhattacharya,   Y.-F.   Shen,   C.M.   Hefferan,
S.F.   Li,   J.   Lind,   R.M.   Suter,   G.S.   Rohrer,
“Three-dimensional  observations  of  grain  volume
changes during annealing of polycrystalline Ni,” Acta
Materialia, 167, 40-50 (2019). article
- Y.-F.   Shen,   X.   Zhong,   H.   Liu,   R.M.   Suter,
A.  Morawiec,  G.S.  Rohrer,  “Determining  Grain
Boundary Energies from Triple Junction Geometries
without  Discretizing  the  Five-Parameter  Space,”
Acta Materialia, 166, 126-134 (2019). article
- J. P. Hanson, A. Bagri, J. Lind, P. Kenesei, R. M.
Suter,              S.              Grade ak,              M.
J. Demkowicz, “Crystallographic character of grain
boundaries resistant to hydrogen-assisted fracture in
Ni-basealloy 725,” Nature Communications, 9, 3386
(2018). article ak,              M.
J. Demkowicz, “Crystallographic character of grain
boundaries resistant to hydrogen-assisted fracture in
Ni-basealloy 725,” Nature Communications, 9, 3386
(2018). article
- R.   Pokharel,   D.W.   Brown,   B.   Clausen,   D.D.
Byler,  T.L.  Ickes,  K.J.  McClellan,  R.M.  Suter,
P.  Kenesei,  “Non-Destructive  Characterization  of
UO2+x Nuclear Fuels,” Microscopy Today, 25, 42-47
(2017). article
- L.  Wang,  Z.  Zheng,  H.  Phukan,  P.  Kenesei,  J.-S.
Park,  J.  Lind,  R.M.  Suter,  T.R.  Bieler,  “Direct
measurement  of  critical  resolved  shear  stress  of
prismatic and basal slip in polycrystalline Ti using
high  energy  X-ray  diffraction  microscopy”,  Acta
Materialia, 132, 598610 (2017). article
- R. M. Suter, “Multiscale measurements for materials
modeling,” Science, 356, 704-705 (2017). article
- W.  K.  Epting,  Z.  Mansley,  D.  B.  Menasche,  P.
Kenesei,  R.  M.  Suter,  K.  Gerdes,  S.  Litster,  P.
A.  Salvador,  “Quantifying  intermediate-frequency
heterogeneities  of  SOFC  electrodes  using  X-ray
computed tomography,” J. Am. Ceramic Soc, 100,
2232-2242 (2017). article
- A. Bagri, J. P. Hanson, J. Lind, P. Kenesei, R. M.
Suter, S. Grade ak, M. J. Demkowicz, “Measuring
grain  boundary  character  distributions  in  Ni-base
alloy 725 using high-energy diffraction microscopy,”
Metallurgical  and  Materials  Transactions  A,  48,
354-361 (2017). article ak, M. J. Demkowicz, “Measuring
grain  boundary  character  distributions  in  Ni-base
alloy 725 using high-energy diffraction microscopy,”
Metallurgical  and  Materials  Transactions  A,  48,
354-361 (2017). article
- T. J Turner, P. A Shade, J. V. Bernier, S. F. Li,
J. C. Schuren, P. Kenesei, R. M. Suter, J. Almer,
“Crystal plasticity model validation using combined
high-energy diffraction microscopy data for a Ti-7Al
specimen,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
A, 48, 627-647 (2017). article
- S.    Maddali,    S.    Taasan,    and    R.M.    Suter,
“Topology-faithful  nonparametric  estimation  and
tracking of bulk interface networks,” Computational
Materials Science 125, 328-340 (2016). article
- D.  B.  Menasche,  J.  Lind,  S.  F.  Li,  P.  Kenesei,
J.  Bingert,  U.  Lienert,  and  R.  M.  Suter,  “Shock
induced  damage  in  copper:  A  before  and  after,
three-dimensional study,” J. Appl. Phys., 119, 15490
(2016) article.
- A.D.  Spear,  J.D.  Hochhalter,  A.R.  Cerrone,  S.F.
Li,   J.F.   Lind,   R.M.   Suter,   A.R.   Ingraffea,“A
method to generate conformal finiteelement meshes
from  3D  measurements  of  microstructurally  small
fatiguecrack  propagation,”  Fatigue  &  Fracture  of
Engineering  Materials  &  Structures,  39,  737-751
(2016). article
- D. B. Menasche, P. A. Shade, J. Lind, S. F. Li, J.
V.  Bernier,  P.  Kenesei,  J.  C.  Schuren,  and  R.  M.
Suter, “Correlation of thermally induced pores with
microstructural features using high energy x-rays,”
Met. and Mat’l Engineering A, 47, 5580-5588 (2016).
article
- P. Shade, D. Menasche, J. Bernier, P. Kenesei, J-S.
Park, R. Suter, J. Schuren and T. Turner, “Fiducial
marker application method for in situ multimodal
x-ray  experiments,”  J.  Appl.  Cryst.  49,  700-704
(2016). article
- T.  J.  Turner,  P.  A.  Shade,  J.  V.  Bernier,  S.  F.
Li, J. C. Schuren, J. Lind, U. Lienert, P. Kenesei,
R. M. Suter, B. Blank, J. Almer, “Combined Near
and Far Field High Energy Diffraction Microscopy
Dataset  for  Ti-7Al  Tensile  Specimen  Elastically
Loaded In Situ,” submitted to Integrating Materials
and Manufacturing Innovation, 5, 5 2016). article
- L. Renversade, R. Quey, W. Ludwig, D. Menasche,
S. Maddali, R. M. Suter, A. Borbely, “Comparison
between Diffraction Contrast Tomography and High
Energy Diffraction Microscopy on a slightly deformed
aluminium  alloy,”  Intl  Union  of  Crystallography
Journal, 3, 1 (2016). article
- T.  Ozturk,  C.  Stein,  R.  Pokharel,  C.  Hefferan,
H.  Tucker,  S.  Jha,  R.  John,  R.  Lebensohn,  P.
Kenesei,  R.  M.  Suter,  A.  D.  Rollett,  “Simulation
domain size requirements for elastic response of 3D
polycrystalline materials,” Modelling and Simulation
in  Materials  Science  and  Engineering,  21,  015006
(2016). article
- S. D. Shastri, P. Kenesei, R. M. Suter, “Refractive
Lens Based Full-Field X-Ray Imaging at 45-50 keV
with Sub-Micron Resolution,” Proc. SPIE, vol. 9592,
95920X-1-9 (2015).
- P.A. Shade, B. Blank, J.C. Schuren, T.J. Turner, P.
Kenesei, K. Goetz, R.M. Suter, J.V. Bernier, S.F. Li,
J. Lind, U. Lienert, J. Almer, Rev. Sci. Instr., “A
rotational and axial motion system load frame insert
for in situ high energy x-ray studies,” Rev. Sci. Instr.,
86, 093902 1-8 (2015). article
- B. Lin, Y. Jin, C.M. Hefferan, S.F. Li, J. Lind, R.M.
Suter, M. Bernacki, N. Bozzolo, A.D. Rollett, G.S.
Rohrer, “Observation of annealing twin nucleation
at triple lines in nickel during grain growth,” Acta
Materialia, 99, 63-68 (2015). article
- E. Wielewski, D. Menasche, P. Callahan, R.M. Suter,
“3-D                        alpha                        colony
characterisation and prior-beta grain reconstruction
of  a  lamellar  Ti-6Al-4V  specimen  using  near-field
high energy x-ray diffraction microscopy,” J. Appl.
Crystallography, 48, 116501171 (2015). article
- A.               Cerrone,               C.               Stein,
R. Pokharel, C. Hefferan, J. Lind, H. Tucker, R.M.
Suter, A.D. Rollett, A. Ingraffea, “Implementation
and verification of a microstructure-based capability
for modeling microcrack nucleation in LSHR at room
temperature,” Modeling and Sim. in Mat. Sci. and
Engr., 23, 035006 (2015). article
- R.  Pokharel,  J.  Lind,  S.F.  Li,  P.  Kenesei,  R.A.
Lebensohn,   R.M.   Suter,   A.D.   Rollett,   “In-situ
observation  of  bulk  3D  grain  evolution  during
plastic deformation in polycrystalline Cu,” Int. J. of
Plasticity, 67, 217-2343 (2015). article
- J. Schuren, J. Lind, S.F. Li, J. Bernier, P. Shade, T.J.
Turner, P. Kenesei, J. Almer, B. Blank, R.M. Suter,
“New  opportunities  for  quantitative  tracking  of
polycrystal responses in three dimensions,” Current
Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 19,
234-244 (2015). article
- L. Wang, J. Lind, H. Phukan, P. Kenesei, J-S. Park,
R.M. Suter, A.J. Beaudoin, T.R. Bieler, “Mechanical
twinning   and   detwinning   in   pure   Ti   during
loading and unloading-An in situ high-energy X-ray
diffraction  microscopy  study,”  Scripta  Materialia,
92, 35-38 (2014). article
- A.D.   Spear,   S.F.   Li,   J.F.   Lind,   R.M.   Suter,
A.R. Ingraffea, “Three dimensional characterization
of  microstructurally  small  fatigue-crack  evolution
using   quantitative   fractography   combined   with
post-mortem  X-ray  tomography  and  high-energy
X-ray diffraction microscopy”, Acta Materialia, 76,
413-424 (2014). article
- J.  Lind,  S.F.  Li,  R.  Pokharel,  U.  Lienert,  A.D.
Rollett, R.M. Suter, “Tensile twin nucleation events
coupled   to   neighboring   slip   observed   in   three
dimensions,”  Acta  Materialia,  76,  213-220  (2014).
article
- J. Lind, A.D. Rollett, R. Pokharel, C.M. Hefferan,
S.F.   Li,   U.   Lienert,   and   R.M.   Suter,   “Image
processing   in   experiments   on,   and   simulations
of   plastic   deformation   of   polycrystals,”   IEEE
International   Conference   on   Image   Processing
(4877-4881) 2014. article
- C.A. Stein, A. Cerrone, T. Ozturk, S. Lee, P. Kenesei,
H. Tucker, R. Pokharel, J. Lind, C.M. Hefferan, R.M.
Suter, A.R. Ingraffea, A.D. Rollett, “Fatigue crack
initiation, slip localization and twin boundaries in a
nickel-based superalloy”, Current Opinion in Solid
State and Materials Science, 2014. article
- P.A. Shade, J.C. Schuren, J.V. Bernier, S.F. Li, B.
Blank, J. Lind, P. Kenesei, U. Lienert, R.M. Suter,
T.J.  Turner,  D.M.  Dimiduk,  J.  Almer,  “Changing
the  Paradigm  for  Engineering  Design  by  Merging
High Energy X-ray Data with Materials Modeling,”
Microsc. and Microanalysis, 20, 1444-1445 (2014).
article
- D.W. Brown, L. Balogh, D. Byler, C. M. Hefferan,
J.F.  Hunter,  P.  Kenesei,  S.F.  Li,  J.  Lind,  S.R.
Niezgoda,  R.M.  Suter,  “Demonstration  of  Near
Field High Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy on
High-Z Ceramic Nuclear Fuel Material,” Materials
Science Forum, 777, 112-117 (2014). article
- R.   Pokharel,   J.   Lind,   A.K.   Kanjarla,   R.A.
Lebensohn,  S.F.  Li,  P.  Kenesei,  R.M.  Suter,  and
A.D.  Rollett,  “Polycrystal  plasticity:  comparison
between grain scale observations of deformation and
simulations,” Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter
Physics, 5, 317-346 (2014). article
- J.F.  Bingert,  R.M.  Suter,  J.  Lind,  S.F.  Li,  R.
Pokharel,   C.   Trujillo,   “High-Energy   Diffraction
Microscopy  Characterization  of  Spall  Damage,”
Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 1, 397-403 (2014).
article
Updated August 25, 2020