KadiStudio Use-Case Workflow: Automation of Data Processing for in Situ Micropillar Compression Tests

Scientific processes produce huge amounts of data that are usually acquired, transformed and analyzed on a regular basis. Translating these processes into automatable and reproducible workflows is considered to be an efficient way to support scientists in performing repeated processes that would otherwise be time-consuming and error-prone tasks. Consequently, the quality of scientific research can be accelerated and enhanced. In this article, we present for the first time a use-case of KadiStudio as a tool to automate analysis procedures of scientific data that are repeatedly acquired from in situ scanning electron microscope (SEM) micromechanical testing. KadiStudio provides a desktop-based workflow editor as part of the ecosystem of Kadi4Mat: Karlsruhe Data Infrastructure for material Science. The presented workflow includes nodes for processing and analysis of different types of data, namely mechanical response in text format and a series of SEM images in video file format acquired during in situ SEM deformation tests. In addition, the raw and analyzed data are automatically uploaded to the KadiWeb repository via nodes based on the kadi-apy library.