@article{, author = {Alpers, Andreas; Brieden, Andreas; Gritzmann, Peter; Lyckegaard, Allan; Poulsen, Henning Friis}, title = {Generalized power diagrams for 3D representations of polycrystals}, editor = {}, booktitle = {}, series = {}, journal = {Philosophical Magazine}, address = {}, publisher = {}, edition = {}, year = {2015}, isbn = {}, volume = {95}, number = {9}, pages = {1016-1028}, url = {}, doi = {10.1080/14786435.2015.1015469}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Characterizing the grain structure of polycrystalline material is an important task in material science. The present paper introduces the concept of generalized balanced power diagrams as a concise alternative to voxelated mappings. Here, each grain is represented by (measured approximations of) its center-of-mass position, its volume and, if available, by its second-order moments (in the non-equiaxed case). Such parameters may be obtained from 3D x-ray diffraction. As the exact global optimum of our model results from the solution of a suitable linear program it can be computed quite efficiently. Based on verified real-world measurements we show that from the few parameters per grain (3, respectively 6 in 2D and 4, respectively 10 in 3D) we obtain excellent representations of both equiaxed and non-equiaxed structures. Hence our approach seems to capture the physical principles governing the forming of such polycrystals in the underlying process quite well. }, note = {}, institution = {Universität der Bundeswehr München, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Organisationswissenschaften, WOW 1 - Institut für Controlling, Finanz- und Risikomanagement, Professur: Brieden, Andreas}, }