journal article·2026-05

Predicting grain boundary void nucleation sites in microstructure during shock loading with convolutional neural networks

Abhijith Thoopul Anantharanga, Jackson Plummer, Saryu J. Fensin, Brandon Runnels

Acta Materialia· Volume 310
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