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 …

Strain states and unique properties in cold-rolled TiNi shape memory alloys

Q Liang, S Zhao, C Liang, T Zhao, D Wang, X Ding… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Martensitic transformation (MT), strain glass transition (SGT) and the corresponding stress-
strain responses in cold-rolled Ti 49.2 Ni 50.8 shape memory alloys (SMAs) at various …

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 …

Composition-dependent shuffle-shear coupling and shuffle-regulated strain glass transition in compositionally modulated Ti-Nb alloys

Y Su, C Liang, X Sun, H Zhang, Q Liang, Y Zheng… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Athermal pure shuffle O′ nanodomains have been reported as a common structural state in
metastable β-Ti alloys. In this study, by integrating thermodynamic databases, first-principles …

Dynamic solitons in antiferromagnets

EG Galkina, BA Ivanov - Low temperature physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A review of theoretical studies of magnetic solitons in antiferromagnets (AFM) is presented.
The key concepts of AFM physics and soliton theory are discussed. An analysis of AFM …

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 …

Grain size effect on the temperature-dependence of elastic modulus of nanocrystalline NiTi

K Chu, B Wang, Q Li, Y Onuki, F Ren - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
The effect of grain size on temperature-dependent elastic modulus (TDEM) of polycrystalline
NiTi over a temperature span of 200° C was investigated by dynamic thermomechanical …

A lightweight strain glass alloy showing nearly temperature-independent low modulus and high strength

C Liu, Y Ji, J Tang, K Otsuka, Y Wang, M Hou, Y Hao… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Fast development of space technologies poses a strong challenge for elastic materials,
which need to be not only lightweight, strong and compliant, but also able to maintain stable …

Strain glass state in Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Zr shape memory alloys

S Xu, J Pons, R Santamarta, I Karaman, O Benafan… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
This work reports the existence of the strain glass state in Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Zr shape memory
alloys induced by the precursor stages of the H-phase precipitation, typical of this alloy …

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 …