Role of the Surface in Solid–Solid Phase Transitions: Molecular Dynamics Study of the α-γ Transition in Fe

B Wang, HM Urbassek - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2016 - Springer
Using classical molecular dynamics simulation, we study the role of surfaces on solid–solid
phase transformations. We contrast the transformation behavior of a thin film (two free …

Advances in understanding atomic-scale deformation of small-sized face-centered cubic metals with in situ transmission electron microscopy

X Wang, L Zhong, SX Mao - Materials Today Nano, 2018 - Elsevier
Face-centered cubic (fcc) metals exhibit outstanding mechanical properties both in small-
sized and bulk nanostructures and are thus promising for applications in micro/nano …

Grain boundary phases in bcc metals

T Frolov, W Setyawan, RJ Kurtz, J Marian, AR Oganov… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a computational discovery of novel grain boundary structures and multiple grain
boundary phases in elemental body-centered cubic (bcc) metals represented by tungsten …

Atomic-scale study of the mechanical properties of dual-phase fcc/bcc crystallites: influences of alloying elements and phase boundaries

Y Jiao, LC Xu, WJ Dan, YS Xu, WG Zhang - Journal of Materials Science, 2022 - Springer
The present molecular dynamics (MD) study investigates the effect of Mn and C additions
and phase boundaries on the deformation mechanism of fcc/bcc crystallites at an atomic …

Unconventional non-uniform local lattice distortion in dilute Ti-Mo solid solution

QM Hu, R Yang - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The substitutional solute atom induced local lattice distortion (LLD) in dilute metal solid
solution was believed to be uniform because the solute atom was supposed to occupy the …

Deformation-induced nanoscale high-temperature phase separation in Co–Fe alloys at room temperature

LC Zhang, M Calin, F Paturaud, C Mickel… - Applied physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Instead of applying severe plastic deformation, high-temperature heat treatment or high
pressure, grain refinement and high-temperature phase separation induced by deformation …

{1 1 2}< 1 1 1> Twinning during ω to body-centered cubic transition

SQ Wu, DH Ping, Y Yamabe-Mitarai, WL Xiao, Y Yang… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
We propose an ω-lattice mechanism that is irrelevant to dislocation behaviors for a popular
twinning ({1 1 2}< 1 1 1>-type) system in body-centered-cubic (bcc) metals and alloys. The …

Misfit strain induced phase transformation at a basal/prismatic twin boundary in deformation of magnesium

P Chen, F Wang, B Li - Computational Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Phase transformation from hexagonal close-packed (HCP) to face-centered cubic (FCC)
does not occur in plastic deformation of pure magnesium. In this work, a reversible HCP→ …

Effect of the milling energy on the milling-induced hcp-fcc cobalt allotropic transformations

J Sort, NM Mateescu, J Nogués… - Journal of Metastable …, 2002 - Trans Tech Publ
Cobalt is found to undergo hcp-fcc allotropic phase transformations when subjected to ball
milling. The starting mixture of hcp+ fcc cobalt develops into an almost pure hcp phase after …

Stress-induced phase transformation and phase boundary sliding in Ti: An atomically resolved in-situ analysis

Z Kou, X Li, R Huang, L Yang, Y Yang, T Feng… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
In-situ tensile experiments on pure Ti were performed in a transmission electron microscope
at room temperature. The dynamic process of stress-induced hexagonal closed-packed …