Progress in phase field modeling of functional properties and fracture behavior of shape memory alloys

B Xu, C Yu, J **ong, J Hu, Q Kan, C Wang… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) have been widely employed in many engineering fields due
to their unique functional properties, such as super-elasticity, elastocaloric effect, and shape …

Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of grain size dependent cyclic degradation of super-elasticity and shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi …

B Xu, C Yu, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
A non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was established by
incorporating various inelastic deformation mechanisms, ie, martensite transformation …

Phase transformations, fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials

VI Levitas - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
Review of selected fundamental topics on the interaction between phase transformations,
fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials is presented. It mostly focuses on …

A review of slip transfer: applications of mesoscale techniques

A Hunter, B Leu, IJ Beyerlein - Journal of materials science, 2018 - Springer
In this review article, we present and discuss recent mesoscale modeling studies of slip
transmission of dislocations through biphase interfaces. Specific focus is given to fcc/fcc …

Phase field simulations of plastic strain-induced phase transformations under high pressure and large shear

M Javanbakht, VI Levitas - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Pressure and shear strain-induced phase transformations (PTs) in a nanograined bicrystal
at the evolving dislocations pile-up have been studied utilizing a phase field approach …

Phase transformations in nanograin materials under high pressure and plastic shear: nanoscale mechanisms

VI Levitas, M Javanbakht - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
There are two main challenges in the discovery of new high pressure phases (HPPs) and
transforming this discovery into technologies: finding conditions to synthesize new HPPs …

Phase-field theory for martensitic phase transformations at large strains

VI Levitas - International Journal of Plasticity, 2013 - Elsevier
General phase-field theory for multivariant martensitic phase transformations and explicit
models are formulated at large strains. Each order parameter is unambiguously related to …

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

VI Levitas - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermodynamically consistent phase field theory for multivariant martensitic transformations,
which includes large strains and interface stresses, is developed. Theory is formulated in a …

Interaction between phase transformations and dislocations at the nanoscale. Part 1. General phase field approach

VI Levitas, M Javanbakht - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Thermodynamically consistent, three-dimensional (3D) phase field approach (PFA)
for coupled multivariant martensitic transformations (PTs), including cyclic PTs, variant …

Interaction between phase transformations and dislocations at the nanoscale. Part 2: Phase field simulation examples

M Javanbakht, VI Levitas - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2015 - Elsevier
The complete system of phase field equations for coupled martensitic phase transformations
(PTs), dislocation evolution, and mechanics at large strains is presented. Finite element …