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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
VAMPYR: A MATLAB-Based Toolset Leveraging MTEX for Automating VPSC	33
PRISMS-Indentation: Multi-scale Elasto-Plastic Virtual Indentation Module	21
Computational Alloy Design for Process-Related Uncertainties in Powder Metallurgy	20
Generative Adversarial Networks and Mixture Density Networks-Based Inverse Modeling for Microstructural Materials Design	19
MicroProcSim: A Software for Simulation of Microstructure Evolution	19
Natural Language Processing-Driven Microscopy Ontology Development	19
A Common Data Dictionary and Common Data Model for Additive Manufacturing	18
Parameters, Properties, and Process: Conditional Neural Generation of Realistic SEM Imagery Toward ML-Assisted Advanced Manufacturing	17
A New Analysis Method for the Densification of Casting Ingots with Pore Defects Through Upsetting Deformation	15
Multi-physics Approach to Predict Fatigue Behavior of High Strength Aluminum Alloy Repaired via Additive Friction Stir Deposition	15
New Paradigms in Model Based Materials Definitions for Titanium Alloys in Aerospace Applications	14
Cross-Sectional Melt Pool Geometry of Laser Scanned Tracks and Pads on Nickel Alloy 718 for the 2022 Additive Manufacturing Benchmark Challenges	13
Assessment of Hot Cracking Susceptibility Through Interdendritic Feeding Simulations	13
Enhancing Reproducibility in Precipitate Analysis: A FAIR Approach with Automated Dark-Field Transmission Electron Microscope Image Processing	13
Anisotropic Phase-Field Modeling of Tricrystal Grain Growth Using a Spherical-Gaussian-Based 5-D Computational Approach	12
Microstructure Characterization and Reconstruction in Python: MCRpy	11
AM Bench 2022 Macroscale Tensile Challenge at Different Orientations (CHAL-AMB2022-04-MaTTO) and Summary of Predictions	10
3D Minimum Channel Width Distribution in a Ni-Base Superalloy	10
High-Throughput Microstructural Characterization and Process Correlation Using Automated Electron Backscatter Diffraction	10
Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling with Microstructure-Sensitivity of Viscoplastic Creep in Grade 91 Steel	10
Blockchain-Based Security Access Control System for Sharing Squeeze Casting Process Database	10
Materials Maturity Levels: A Systematic Approach to Evaluating Materials Development	9
Location-Specific Microstructure Characterization Within AM Bench 2022 Laser Tracks on Bare Nickel Alloy 718 Plates	9
3D Grain Shape Generation in Polycrystals Using Generative Adversarial Networks	9
Application of a Chained-ANN for Learning the Process–Structure Mapping in Mg2SixSn1−x Spinodal Decomposition	9

Phase Composition and Phase Transformation of Additively Manufactured Nickel Alloy 718 AM Bench Artifacts	9
Reverse AFM Height Map Search: Content-Based Topography Retrieval via Self-Supervised Deep Learning	9
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Databases for Marine Steels—Part 5: HY-80	8
Automated Grain Boundary (GB) Segmentation and Microstructural Analysis in 347H Stainless Steel Using Deep Learning and Multimodal Microscopy	8
Crystal Elasticity Simulations of Polycrystalline Material Using Rank-One Approximation	8
Consistent Quantification of Precipitate Shapes and Sizes in Two and Three Dimensions Using Central Moments	8
Toward a Physical Basis for a Predictive Finite Element Thermal Model of the LENS™ Process Leveraging Dual-Wavelength Pyrometer Datasets	8
Quantitative Benchmarking of Acoustic Emission Machine Learning Frameworks for Damage Mechanism Identification	8
Image Processing Pipeline for Fluoroelastomer Crystallite Detection in Atomic Force Microscopy Images	8
On the Fidelity of the Scaling Laws for Melt Pool Depth Analysis During Laser Powder Bed Fusion	8
Restoration of Noisy Orientation Maps from Electron Backscatter Diffraction Imaging	7
Community-Scale Problem-Solving: Reflections on a Decade of Infrastructure Development in the MGI	7
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Databases for Marine Steels—Part 3: HSLA-80	7
Prediction of Glass Forming Ability of Bulk Metallic Glasses Using Machine Learning	7
Temperature-Dependent Material Property Database of Cast 70/30 Cu-Ni Material	7
Framework for the Generation of 3D Fiber Composite Structures from 2D Observations	7
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
A Novel Methodology for the Thermographic Cooling Rate Measurement during Powder Bed Fusion of Metals Using a Laser Beam	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
On the Prediction of Uniaxial Tensile Behavior Beyond the Yield Point of Wrought and Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V	6
Imputation Method Based on Collaborative Filtering and Clustering for the Missing Data of the Squeeze Casting Process Parameters	6
Semantics-Enabled Data Federation: Bringing Materials Scientists Closer to FAIR Data	6
Random Generation of Lattice Structures with Short-Range Order	6
An Easy, Simple, and Accessible Web-based Machine Learning Platform, SimPL-ML	6
Location-Specific Microstructure Characterization Within AM Bench 2022 Nickel Alloy 718 3D Builds	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
Data Mining and Visualization of High-Dimensional ICME Data for Additive Manufacturing	6
Phase Identification in Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Patterns of Ti–6Al–4V Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning	6
A Case Study of Multimodal, Multi-institutional Data Management for the Combinatorial Materials Science Community	6
Interpretable Machine Learning for Texture-Dependent Constitutive Models with Automatic Code Generation for Topological Optimization	6
On the Effect of Nucleation Undercooling on Phase Transformation Kinetics	6
A Novel Additive Manufacturing Process Metric for Predicting Spatter-Related Porosity in Laser Powder Bed Fusion	6