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  "abstract": "Geometrically necessary dislocation (GND) density (ρGND), which arise from the accommodation of plastic strain gradients, play an important role in strain hardening and damage initiation in polycrystals, but the computational cost of full-field crystal plasticity simulations can limit their applicability to design-scale applications. We train deep-learning surrogates on 1394 crystal plasticity fast Fourier transform (CPFFT) simulations of aluminum microstructures to predict local ρGND density from crystal orientation, dislocation density, and strain. On 140 held-out test structures, a baseline convolutional neural network (CNN) produces spatially flat predictions and fails to reproduce grain-boundary pile-ups at any strain (R^2GB = −1.71 ± 0.24, worse than predicting the mean). A Fourier neural operator (FNO) recovers the correct GND network topology but systematically under-predicts its magnitude (R^2GB = 0.85±0.05). A hybrid FNO–CNN architecture, coupling spectral mixing with a local convolutional branch, achieves the best fidelity (R^2GB = 0.88 ± 0.02), cutting grain-boundary RMSE (GB-RMSE) by 32% and 11% relative to the CNN and FNO. These results demonstrate that spectral–local coupling is key to reproducing the localized GND pile-ups driving strain hardening and damage initiation at grain boundaries. Accurate, low-cost ρGND predictions could ultimately enable rapid determination of internal stress and strain-gradient fields governing local yielding at grain boundaries.",
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  "published": "2026-10-04",
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  "title": "A hybrid Fourier neural operator–convolutional surrogate for predicting geometrically necessary dislocation density in polycrystalline aluminum",
  "title_text": "A hybrid Fourier neural operator–convolutional surrogate for predicting geometrically necessary dislocation density in polycrystalline aluminum",
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