System and method for quantifying material properties

A system for quantifying and characterizing the properties of a material from at least one sample of said material, comprising:

• (a) at least one means for imposing known applied influences upon said at least one sample;
• (b) at least one means for measuring responses of said at least one sample to said applied influences;
• (c) means for recording and storing instantaneous values of said known applied influences and of said responses;
• (d) a statistical mathematical model comprising parameters for matching said model to said instantaneous values of said applied influences and of said responses;
• (e) means for computing from said instantaneous values a concise set of said parameters which closely matches mathematical responses of said model to physical said responses of said sample to said applied influences, and
• (f) deriving a dynamic simulation model of said material whose characteristics are representative of said material,
• whereby said dynamic simulation model enables the characterization of said material both within and beyond said range of applied influences.

A method of material characterization and predictive computational modeling of mechanical stress and strain at varying temperatures, said characterization and said modeling based on a statistical strain transition domain model and employing steps of determining, in said model, statistical parameters comprising at least four selected from the group consisting of:

• (a) energy barrier height, mean;
• (b) energy barrier height, dispersion;
• (c) intrinsic energy bias, dispersion (about a zero mean);
• (d) strain volume magnitude, mean;
• (e) strain volume magnitude, dispersion;
• and
• (f) total domain density.