Arthur D. Pelton This work describes the application of a direct search method to the optimization of problems of real industrial interest, namely three new material science applications designed with the FactSage software. The search method is BiMADS, the biobjective version of the mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) algorithm, designed for blackbox optimization. We give a general description … Read more
During alloy and process design, it is often desired to identify regions of design or process variables for which certain calculated functions have optimal values under various constraints, for example: compositions of minimum liquidus temperature in an N-component alloy; compositions where the amount of precipitate in a given phase is maximized or minimized during annealing … Read more
It is often of interest, for a multicomponent system, to identify the low melting compositions at which local minima of the liquidus surface occur. The experimental determination of these minima can be very time-consuming. An alternative is to employ the CALPHAD approach using evaluated thermodynamic databases containing optimized model parameters giving the thermodynamic properties of … Read more