Hey Vitaly,

 

Good to hear.  Attached is an updated white paper.   A few new things:

• I accepted all your suggestions to the timeline.  They were great. 
• I reworked the proposal to just list the strength and failure models we would fit.  I figured we didn’t need to get into specifics at this level.  That was me overcomplicating things, I think.  I picked Johnson-Cook for both, since they are simple. I am open to different models if you have one you  like better.   
• I added a section on the meso-scale simulations.  There are some references there you can look at.  My basic thought was to take the CT scan and put that into a computer code to simulate the actual void structure or a notional representation of it (It depending on what is feasible. The proposal is written using notional representations, since I know we can do that easily now ).  Then compare that to our experiments.  I think it could be interesting and add a nice element to the eventual paper.  I would love to hear any thoughts/suggestions you have.
• I changed the work description to say we will do the micro-CT.  We have some capabilities here that can get ~3 microns easy, ~1 micron if we really push.

 

Hopefully, I’ve improved on the proposal and its one step closer to done.  As with the last one, feel free to add/change/subtract as you see fit.

 

~ Paul Specht

Sandia National Laboratories

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Hey Paul,
I definitely agree, we should add the publication in peer reviewed journal as expected output of the collaboration.
Vitaly