2025 Workshop on Methods for Three-Dimensional Microstructure Studies

August 13-15, 2025
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

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Overview

The Materials Science & Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University will host a workshop on 3D Microstructures August 13-15, 2025, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Bluequartz Software. The workshop is intended for researchers at all levels and will combine presentations on 3D microstructure science as well as practical presentations on the tools and methods for reconstructing, analyzing and synthesizing 3D microstructures. A particular focus of the workshop is on 3D orientation maps, constructed from EBSD serial sections, transmission X-ray measurements, or synthetic microstructures. Participants in the workshop will learn how to use DREAM.3D, which is a freely available software package that performs a wide range of functions for reconstructions of 3D microstructures, statistical analysis and generation of representative volume elements. This package runs on all standard computers.

The workshop will consist of three types of presentations. Roughly one third of the presentations will be about state of the art 3D materials research. Another third of the presentations will be tutorials illustrating the capabilities and uses of DREAM.3D. The final third of the workshop will be practical sessions in which you can work on your own project with the guidance of the speakers. These sessions are for those participants who would like to analyze their own 3D data (we will provide data to those who do not have it). So that you can follow the tutorials and participate in the practical sessions, it will be necessary to have your own computer at the workshop.

If you are unable to travel to Pittsburgh, remote participation is also available - see registration site.

Link to Registration

Program Highlights

1) Invited lectures by innovators of 3D techniques
Ashley Bucsek, University of Michigan, Imaging inelastic deformation mechanisms with dark-field x-ray microscopy and topotomography
Darren Pagan, Penn State, Extending 3D X-ray Techniques from Model Systems to Industrial Alloys and Beyond
Katharina Marquardt, University of Oxford, The Defect Pathway: An Endeavour to Connect Crystal Defects and Grain Boundary Planes in Olivine


2) Reconstruction of EBSD serial section data
3) Analysis of 3D microstructures
4) Generation of synthetic 3D digital microstructures, including surface meshing of grain boundary networks
5) Lectures on the latest developments in 3D microstructure science.

Agenda

Workshop Agenda

Organizers

G.S. Rohrer, M. De Graef, A. Krause, A.D. Rollett, S. Donegan, M. Jackson
(Point of contact: rohrer@cmu.edu)

Dates

August 13-15, 2025

Venue

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bosch Sparks Conference Room (Scott Hall 5201)

Accommodations

A block of hotel rooms at the Courtyard Pittsburgh University Center, 100 lytton Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213, will be available for participants for a rate of $179.00 per night.
Reservations can be made at this Link

Booking available until July 22nd, 2025

Venue Information