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Phase Field Model and Computer Simulation of Strain Glasses

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Strain glass is a new structural state in ferroelastic materials, which offers unique transition behavior and properties. In this chapter, we introduce a phase field model of strain glass systems and study their transition behavior and the associated properties by computer simulations. Local stresses associated with randomly distributed defects, including point defects and extended defects (dislocations and concentration modulations), are found to play the most important role in the formation of strain glass, by suppressing autocatalysis in nucleation and confining the growth of martensitic domains. A broad distribution of defect strength leads to continued nucleation and growth of martensitic domains in a broad temperature or stress range and renders the otherwise sharp first-order martensitic transformation into a broadly smeared “diffuse” strain glass transition with slim hysteresis, nearly linear superelasticity, ultralow elastic modulus and Invar and Elinvar anomalies. New strategies for designing strain glass systems with large recoverable strain are discussed.

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    Xiaobing Ren

  3. Ferroic Physics Group, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Xiaobing Ren

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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Wang, D., Ren, X., Wang, Y. (2018). Phase Field Model and Computer Simulation of Strain Glasses. In: Lookman, T., Ren, X. (eds) Frustrated Materials and Ferroic Glasses. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_10

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