Recent in situ experimental and theoretical advances in severe plastic deformations, strain-induced phase transformations, and microstructure evolution under high …

VI Levitas - Materials transactions, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Severe plastic deformations (SPD) under high pressure, mostly by high-pressure torsion, are
employed for producing nanostructured materials and stable or metastable high-pressure …

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 …

Finite-strain scale-free phase-field approach to multivariant martensitic phase transformations with stress-dependent effective thresholds

H Babaei, VI Levitas - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2020 - Elsevier
A scale-free phase-field model for martensitic phase transformations (PTs) at finite strains is
developed as an essential generalization of small-strain models in Levitas et al.(2004) and …

Simulations of multivariant Si I to Si II phase transformation in polycrystalline silicon with finite-strain scale-free phase-field approach

H Babaei, R Pratoori, VI Levitas - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Scale-free phase-field approach and corresponding finite element method simulations for
multivariant martensitic phase transformation from cubic Si I to tetragonal Si II in a …

Multiscale modeling of interface-mediated mechanical, thermal, and mass transport in heterogeneous materials: Perspectives and applications

L Xiong, Y Chen, IJ Beyerlein, D McDowell - Journal of Materials Research, 2021 - Springer
In this perspective, we:(a) characterize the multiscale nature of the mechanical (plasticity,
fracture, twinning, and phase transformations) and thermal behavior, as well as the mass …

Evolution of edge dislocations under elastic and inelastic strains: A nanoscale phase-field study

E Bakhtiyari, M Javanbakht… - … and Mechanics of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A phase-field approach is used to study the evolution of edge dislocations in single crystals
at the nanoscale. The characteristics of an advanced phase-field approach for dislocation …

[HTML][HTML] Stability criteria of Aluminum lattice from first-principles

L Zhang, T Wang, F Liu - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The stability of the Aluminum (Al) lattice fundamentally determines the properties of pure Al
and its alloys, making it crucial for high-pressure research and alloy development. Through …

Investigating the effect of nanovoid inelastic surface stress and the austenite–martensite interface inelastic stress on the martensitic growth at the nanovoid surface

A Fallahnejad, E Barchiesi, M Javanbakht… - Continuum Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, the effect of nanovoid inelastic surface stress and austenite (A)–martensite (M)
interface inelastic stress on the martensitic growth at the nanovoid surface is investigated …

Interaction of martensitic transformations and vacancy diffusion at the nanoscale under thermal loading: A phase field model and simulations

M Javanbakht, MS Ghaedi - Acta Mechanica, 2021 - Springer
In this paper, the interaction of martensitic phase transformations (PTs) with vacancy
evolution is studied using the phase field approach. The evolution of nanovacancies and …

Magnetoelastic equilibrium and super-magnetostriction in highly defected pre-transitional materials

WF Rao, YC Xu, CC Hu, AG Khachaturyan - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Large hysteresis or irreversibility of a magnetic field-induced displacive transformation is a
major obstacle for its magnetostrictive applications. The problem is the difficulty of nucleating …