A Phase Field Model for Martensitic Transformations

Temperature-controlled martensitic phase transformations in a model NiAl alloy

Reversible martensitic phase transformations in a partially disordered Ni–Al alloy within the composition range from 60 to 65 at. % of Ni are investigated using molecular dynamics simulation. During a complete temperature cycle a wide hysteresis in enthalpy, volume, and shape of the simulated crystals is observed. The temperature T0 of the phase transformation is found from the calculated free ...

Theory and model for martensitic transformations.

Phase field approach to martensitic phase transformations with large strains and interface stresses

Thermodynamically consistent phase field theory for multivariant martensitic transformations, which includes large strains and interface stresses, is developed. Theory is formulated in a way that some geometrically nonlinear terms do not disappear in the geometrically linear limit, which in particular allowed us to introduce the expression for the interface stresses consistent with the sharp in...

Interface propagation and microstructure evolution in phase field models of stress-induced martensitic phase transformations

Analytical solutions for diffuse interface propagation are found for two recently developed Landau potentials that account for the phenomenology of stress-induced martensitic phase transformations. The solutions include the interface profile and velocity as a function of temperature and stress tensor. An instability in the interface propagation near lattice instability conditions is studied num...

Surface tension and energy in multivariant martensitic transformations: phase-field theory, simulations, and model of coherent interface.

The Ginzburg-Landau theory for multivariant martensitic phase transformations is advanced in three directions: the potential is developed that introduces the surface tension at interfaces; a mixed term in gradient energy is introduced to control the martensite-martensite interface energy independent of that for austenite-martensite; and a noncontradictory expression for variable surface energy ...