The Complex Computer System Based on Cellular Automata Method Designed to Support Modelling of Laminar Cooling Processes

The user friendly computer system that have the capability of modelling material behaviour both at the macro and micro scales was developed in this work. The system was designed to predict microstructure evolution during phase transformation in laminar cooling conditions with the use of the multi scale cellular automata finite element (CAFE) model. The finite element (FE) part is based on the conventional Fourier type equation and is used to predict macroscopic temperature distribution. This is an input for the micro scale cellular automata (CA) model of austenite-ferrite phase transformation. To facilitate the research, proposed micro scale CA model was implemented within developed universal object-oriented programming framework CAF. Description of major assumptions and functionality of the developed numerical system including efficient Graphical User Interface (GUI) is presented in the paper. The intuitive visualization of data obtained in different length scales facilitates work with the software.