Modeling and Visualization Studio
Beyond Learning: Immersive Visualization
The Modeling and Advanced Visualization Studio (MAVS) employs new technologies and capabilities that enable students and scientists to go beyond traditional learning environments to understand and interact with data like never before. Through immersive visualization, users experience materials science from atoms to parts, learning crystal structures, defects, and microstructural features. Multidimensional data comes to life with various virtual and augmented reality systems that showcase cutting-edge research capabilities at Mines using 3D X-ray diffraction, atom probe tomography, electron microscopy, and multiscale computational modeling and simulations.
The showcase below includes materials science demonstrations from MAVS Director Prof. Garritt J. Tucker’s research group.
Contact
Prof. Garritt J. Tucker
tucker@mines.edu
MAVS is located in room 260 of the CoorsTek Center for Applied Science and Engineering on the Mines campus
Computerized Tomography (CT) of a Garnet Mineral Sample
The CT data highlights various regions of density throughout the sample, and demonstration of visualization tools for manipulating multidimensional spatial data.
Point Cloud Data of Nanoporous Metal Foam
Atomistic simulation of a computational model of platinum nanoporous metal foam, showing the atomic structure and 3D interconnected ligament topology at the nanoscale.
Molecular Dynamics (MD) of Nanoscale Deformation Mechanisms
Fully dense nanocrystalline metal alloy generated from atomistic simulation highlighting the operative deformation mechanisms to achieve maximum strength, e.g., dislocation slip (red planes) and grain boundaries (white).
Atom Probe Tomography (APT)
Exploring chemical segregation in a nanocrystalline alloys, showing the influence of various processing routes to tune microstructural stability through solute distribution at the grain boundaries. Experimental characterization using APT was performed by Prof. Gregory B. Thompson at the University of Alabama as part of collaborative project with Prof. Tucker funded by the Army Research Office.