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 This is a DAMASK fork with "Discrete deformation twinning model" implementation based on work done by Dr. Satyapriya Gupta and Dr. Philip Eisenlohr at MSU.)
 
 ### The Discrete Deformation Twinning Model
+The aim of this model is to accurately match experimental observations of deformation twinning while remaining computationally efficient compared to physics-based phase field models.
 
 * We introduce stochasticity for the nucleation and growth events of twinning through random sampling, similar to Monte Carlo Methods.
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 * The ease or difficulty of a twinning event is controlled by adjusting the frequency of sampling.
 * At each voxel, the state of twinning is treated as a discrete quantity, unlike the approach based on diffused volume fraction method.
 * The kinetics of twinning occur in the form of a “jump,” rather than following a rate equation as in the “pseudo-slip” approach.