Solid‐state cooling is an environmentally friendly, no global warming potential alternative to
vapor compression‐based systems. Elastocaloric cooling based on NiTi shape memory …

In the last few decades, the phase field method has shown tremendous capabilities of
predicting microstructure evolutions at the mesoscale scale. This method was widely used …

A non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was established by
incorporating various inelastic deformation mechanisms, ie, martensite transformation …

The allotropic phase transformation in zirconia from the tetragonal to monoclinic double
lattices is known to occur by a martensitic twinning mechanism which shows a complex …

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 …

Recent experiments showed that the macroscopic interface propagation of the martensitic
phase transformation in Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) includes unstable microstructure …

A phase-field theory of transformations between martensitic variants and multiple twinning
within martensitic variants is developed for large strains and lattice rotations. It resolves …

Various melting-related phenomena (like surface melting, size dependence of melting
temperature, melting of few nm-size particles and overheating at a very fast heating rate) are …

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 …

General phase-field theory for multivariant martensitic phase transformations and explicit
models are formulated at large strains. Each order parameter is unambiguously related to …