MicroDIce Final conference - 30 March to 1st April, 2015 - Montpellier, France


Microstructural evolution during HT deformation: advances in the characterization techniques and consequences to physical properties

Montpellier, France

30 March – 1 April 2015: Conference

2-3 April: 2-day MTEX open source & free texture analysis training workshop


The conference was a great success, with nice and talented presentations on inter-disciplinary fields, in the exact spirit of MicroDIce.

Many thanks to Dave Mainprice and Andrea Tommasi for this wonderful organization!

Many thanks to the speakers and participants!

A few pictures…

When Dave and Benoît play dislocation recovery…

When everyone enjoy french wine and duck…

The audience

Poster session


This meeting, organized in the framework of the ESF project MicroDIce, aims to present a multi-scale view of our present understanding of the processes controlling plasticity and recrystallization at high temperature in geomaterials (ice and rocks). Recent advances in electron microscopy (e.g. HR-SEM-EBSD) allow characterization of the microstructure in complex multi-phase materials from the nanometre to the centimetre scale. Associated with in-situ experiments digital image correlation (DIC), these techniques provide a multi-scale tracking of the deformation field and the associated microstructural evolution. Diffraction pattern cross-correlation techniques in high-resolution EBSD analysis allow accessing the statistical distribution of defects (e.g. dislocations, disclinations), their crystallography and measurement of local lattice rotations of 1/100°. These high-resolution quantitative microstructural methods provide an increasingly sound physical basis for the analysis of heterogeneous polycrystalline behaviour. Our knowledge of processes like recrystallization, where localization of the deformation within grains or along grain boundaries are key factors, greatly benefit from these new developments. On the other hand, a sound understanding of the evolution of microstructures and textures during deformation is also essential for the characterization of the strain-dependence of the rheological behaviour of ice, rocks, and other crystalline materials. Physical properties, like seismic anisotropy caused by strain-induced crystal preferred orientations, can be used to bridge scales from the laboratory or hand-specimen to the planetary applications, as the study of flow or fracturing in glaciers or convection in the deep Earth. In glaciers, for instance, changes in seismic anisotropy due to the evolution of texture with changing deformation conditions may be used for remote monitoring, via seismology, of the deformation.

Flyer


Final program and practical information

Final program

Final program with abstracts

Conference location

Airport shuttle

Tramway network


Preliminary program & invited speakers

 Day 1: Microstructure, Texture and Evolution

Evolution of microstructures and textures during deformation and recrystallization. Martyn Drury (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

In-situ micro-macro tracking of the deformation field. Michel Bornert (Univ. Paris-Est, France)

Modelling evolving microstructures. Albert Griera (Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

 Day 2: HR study of microstructures

High Resolution EBSD. Claire Maurice (Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, St Etienne, France)

Characterization of the dislocation content of EBSD maps. John Wheeler (Univ. Liverpool, UK)

 Day 3: Rheology: consequences of microstructure and texture evolution to large-scale flow

Non-stationary rheology and changing microstructure. Brian Evans (MIT, USA)

Impact of texture-induced anisotropy on glaciers flow. Fabien Gillet-Chaulet (LGGE, Univ. Grenoble, France)


Venue

The conference will take place in Montpellier, at the CNRS conference hall, which is located 15 mn walking (or bus connection) from a tramway station. Plan and directions here


Registration deadline & fees

Registration for the conference (30 March-1st April) must be done online here (click on "Registration", then select "Micro-DICE", more info on the flyer)

Deadline: 15 February 2015

Registration fees

|Senior researchers| 100 € |
| PhD & Post-Doc | 50 € |

The registration fees include the conference material, coffee breaks, lunches, and the welcome reception. N.B. payment of the registration fee is required before any abstract can be accepted.

Important: The MTEX training workshop is limited to 30 participants. Inscriptions must be done by email to David Mainprice. The inscription for the 2-day training workshop will only be valid if you are registered for the 3 day conference. Further details about MTEX can be found here

More information about the MTEX training workshop here


Abstracts

One-page long abstracts should be sent as Word files by email to David Mainprice. Please indicate the presentation preference (oral or poster) in the email.

The deadline for abstracts submission is February 15, 2015.