Strain glass state, strain glass transition, and controlled strain release

D Wang, Y Ji, X Ren, Y Wang - Annual Review of Materials …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Strain glass is a new strain state discovered recently in ferroelastic systems that is
characterized by nanoscale martensitic domains formed through a freezing transition. These …

Coexistence of strain glass transition and martensitic transformation in highly nickel-rich ferroelastic alloy with large elastocaloric effect

C Lv, K Wang, B Wang, J Zheng, K Zhang, G Li, Y Lai… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Strain glass transition attracts increasing attention in ferroelastic alloys in the context that
martensitic transformation serves as the dominant mechanism for shape memory alloys …

Occurrence of the R-phase with increased stability induced by low temperature precipitate-free aging in a Ni50. 9Ti49. 1 alloy

X Huo, P Chen, S Lahkar, M **, X Han, Y Song… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The R-phase transformation presents low thermal hysteresis, high stability against thermal
cycling and ultrahigh internal friction (IF). However, a clear explanation for the occurrence of …

Ferroic glasses

Y Ji, D Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhou, D Xue… - npj Computational …, 2017 - nature.com
Ferroic glasses (strain glass, relaxor and cluster spin glass) refer to frozen disordered states
in ferroic systems; they are conjugate states to the long-range ordered ferroic states—the …

Reentrant strain glass transition in Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloy

W Wang, Y Ji, M Fang, D Wang, S Ren, K Otsuka… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Reentrant glass transition, referring to a reversible transition from a high-temperature
ordered phase to a low-temperature glassy phase, is unusual and difficult to be understood …

Spinodal strain glass in Mn-Cu alloys

W Wang, P Luo, Y Wei, Y Ji, C Liu, X Ren - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Strain glasses (STGs), which are characterized by nanodomains of martensite formed via a
strain glass transition, can produce many unusual properties not possessed by normal …

Crossover strain glass alloy exhibiting large recoverable strain over a wide temperature range

Y Qian, W Wang, Y Wang, A **ao, Y Liu, G Zhang, Z Xu… - Acta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Superelastic alloys, being successfully used in cutting-edge space technologies, are desired
to possess large recoverable strain and wide working temperature range simultaneously …

Determining pressure-temperature phase diagrams of materials

RJN Baldock, LB Pártay, AP Bartók, MC Payne… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We extend the nested sampling algorithm to simulate materials under periodic boundary
and constant pressure conditions, and show how it can be used to determine the complete …

Ab initio Prediction of Martensitic and Intermartensitic Phase Boundaries in Ni-Mn-Ga

B Dutta, A Çakır, C Giacobbe, A Al-Zubi, T Hickel… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Despite the importance of martensitic transformations of Ni-Mn-Ga Heusler alloys for their
magnetocaloric and shape-memory properties, the martensitic part of their phase diagrams …

Two-step strain glass transition in NiTi shape memory alloy with unique properties

Q Liang, D Wang, X Ding, Y Wang - Materials Research Letters, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We report unique two-step strain glass transition toward different local strain states in NiTi, ie
R and B19′ strain glasses. This unique transition is evidenced by dynamic mechanical …