A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ENHANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF TERNARY PHASE DIAGRAMS

作者：Vergara Diego^*; Pablo Rubio Manuel; Lorenzo Miguel

来源：Journal of Materials Education: An International Journal with a New Concept in Journal Publication , 2015, 37(3-4): 93-101.

• engineering education
• ternary phase diagram
• 3D interactive virtual platform
• three-dimensional viewing

Materials and Mechanical Engineering students often find spatial visualization difficult. The problem appears in particular in the field of ternary phase diagrams. In order to improve the students' spatial skills in such a field, an interactive virtual application was developed using diverse commercial software: (i) 3DStudioMax (c) for designing the ternary equilibrium diagram and (ii) Quest3D (c) for giving the tool a more intuitive and ease-of-use character. The final design of the 3D virtual tool allows students to interact in real time with a ternary diagram, e.g. rotating views, changing the point of view, cutting the diagram revealing isothermal sections, observing hidden zones of the diagram by applying the transparency option, exploding view of phases and, so on.

• 出版日期2015-8