OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
VAMPYR: A MATLAB-Based Toolset Leveraging MTEX for Automating VPSC	57
PRISMS-Indentation: Multi-scale Elasto-Plastic Virtual Indentation Module	33
Computational Alloy Design for Process-Related Uncertainties in Powder Metallurgy	23
MicroProcSim: A Software for Simulation of Microstructure Evolution	21
Generative Adversarial Networks and Mixture Density Networks-Based Inverse Modeling for Microstructural Materials Design	20
A Common Data Dictionary and Common Data Model for Additive Manufacturing	19
Natural Language Processing-Driven Microscopy Ontology Development	19
Multi-physics Approach to Predict Fatigue Behavior of High Strength Aluminum Alloy Repaired via Additive Friction Stir Deposition	18
MAUD Rietveld Refinement Software for Neutron Diffraction Texture Studies of Single- and Dual-Phase Materials	18
Parameters, Properties, and Process: Conditional Neural Generation of Realistic SEM Imagery Toward ML-Assisted Advanced Manufacturing	16
New Paradigms in Model Based Materials Definitions for Titanium Alloys in Aerospace Applications	15
Cross-Sectional Melt Pool Geometry of Laser Scanned Tracks and Pads on Nickel Alloy 718 for the 2022 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Challenges	15
Assessment of Hot Cracking Susceptibility Through Interdendritic Feeding Simulations	14
Enhancing Reproducibility in Precipitate Analysis: A FAIR Approach with Automated Dark-Field Transmission Electron Microscope Image Processing	14
Blockchain-Based Security Access Control System for Sharing Squeeze Casting Process Database	13
Microstructure Characterization and Reconstruction in Python: MCRpy	13
Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling with Microstructure-Sensitivity of Viscoplastic Creep in Grade 91 Steel	12
High-Throughput Microstructural Characterization and Process Correlation Using Automated Electron Backscatter Diffraction	12
AM Bench 2022 Macroscale Tensile Challenge at Different Orientations (CHAL-AMB2022-04-MaTTO) and Summary of Predictions	11
Phase Composition and Phase Transformation of Additively Manufactured Nickel Alloy 718 AM Bench Artifacts	10
3D Minimum Channel Width Distribution in a Ni-Base Superalloy	10
3D Grain Shape Generation in Polycrystals Using Generative Adversarial Networks	10
Location-Specific Microstructure Characterization Within AM Bench 2022 Laser Tracks on Bare Nickel Alloy 718 Plates	9
Automated Grain Boundary (GB) Segmentation and Microstructural Analysis in 347H Stainless Steel Using Deep Learning and Multimodal Microscopy	9
Crystal Elasticity Simulations of Polycrystalline Material Using Rank-One Approximation	9

On the Fidelity of the Scaling Laws for Melt Pool Depth Analysis During Laser Powder Bed Fusion	9
Image Processing Pipeline for Fluoroelastomer Crystallite Detection in Atomic Force Microscopy Images	9
Application of a Chained-ANN for Learning the Process–Structure Mapping in Mg2SixSn1−x Spinodal Decomposition	9
Reverse AFM Height Map Search: Content-Based Topography Retrieval via Self-Supervised Deep Learning	9
Toward a Physical Basis for a Predictive Finite Element Thermal Model of the LENS™ Process Leveraging Dual-Wavelength Pyrometer Datasets	9
Prediction of Glass Forming Ability of Bulk Metallic Glasses Using Machine Learning	8
Consistent Quantification of Precipitate Shapes and Sizes in Two and Three Dimensions Using Central Moments	8
Community-Scale Problem-Solving: Reflections on a Decade of Infrastructure Development in the MGI	8
A Novel Methodology for the Thermographic Cooling Rate Measurement during Powder Bed Fusion of Metals Using a Laser Beam	8
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Databases for Marine Steels—Part 5: HY-80	8
Quantitative Benchmarking of Acoustic Emission Machine Learning Frameworks for Damage Mechanism Identification	8
A Case Study of Beta-Variational Auto-encoders, Disentanglement Impacts of Input Distribution and Beta-Variation Based Upon a Computational Multi-modal Particle Packing Simulation	7
Framework for the Generation of 3D Fiber Composite Structures from 2D Observations	7
Restoration of Noisy Orientation Maps from Electron Backscatter Diffraction Imaging	7
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Database of Cast 70/30 Cu-Ni Material	7
Automatic Determination of the Weak-Beam Condition in Dark Field X-ray Microscopy	7
Equivariant Neural Networks for Controlling Dynamic Spatial Light Modulators	7
Location-Specific Microstructure Characterization Within AM Bench 2022 Nickel Alloy 718 3D Builds	6
A Novel Additive Manufacturing Process Metric for Predicting Spatter-Related Porosity in Laser Powder Bed Fusion	6
Semantics-Enabled Data Federation: Bringing Materials Scientists Closer to FAIR Data	6
Phase Identification in Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Patterns of Ti–6Al–4V Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning	6
On the Prediction of Uniaxial Tensile Behavior Beyond the Yield Point of Wrought and Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V	6
An Easy, Simple, and Accessible Web-based Machine Learning Platform, SimPL-ML	6
On the Effect of Nucleation Undercooling on Phase Transformation Kinetics	6
Interpretable Machine Learning for Texture-Dependent Constitutive Models with Automatic Code Generation for Topological Optimization	6
Imputation Method Based on Collaborative Filtering and Clustering for the Missing Data of the Squeeze Casting Process Parameters	6
Uncertainty-Informed Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Framework for Robust Design Optimization of Microstructure-Sensitive Multiaxial Fatigue Properties	6
Automated Segmentation and Chord Length Distribution of Melt Pools in Complex 3D Printed Metal Artifacts	6
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Databases for Marine Steels—Part 3: HSLA-80	6
A Case Study of Multimodal, Multi-institutional Data Management for the Combinatorial Materials Science Community	6