Plastic deformation in crystals is mediated by the motion of line defects known as
dislocations. For decades, dislocation activity has been treated as a homogeneous, smooth …

Recently discovered phase transition and elastic anomaly of compression-induced softening
and heating-induced hardening (CISHIH) in group VB transition metals at high-pressure and …

ω-titanium (Ti) is a high-pressure phase that is conventionally perceived to be brittle and
nondeformable, although direct investigations of its deformation process remain scarce. In …

A quantitative phase-field model has been developed to simulate the microstructural
evolution during the athermal β→ ω transformation in the Zr–Nb alloys by incorporating to a …

Two homogeneous deformation paths under uniaxial tension and shear are modeled for the
wurtzite (B4) to rocksalt (B1) phase transformation of AlN by ab initio density functional …

Metastable β titanium alloys are attracting great interest due to their intricate plastic
deformation mechanisms. In this work, a novel metastable β titanium alloy Ti-6Mo-3.5 Cr-1Zr …

The martensitic transformation is a fundamental physical phenomenon at the origin of
important industrial applications. However, the underlying microscopic mechanism, which is …

In this work, we conducted in-situ high PT neutron diffraction experiments on U-7.7 Nb. Our
results show that the tetragonal γ o phase is substantially more compressible than the …

Allotropic phase transformations may be driven by the application of stresses in many
materials; this has been especially well-documented for pressure driven transformations …

Martensitic transformation (MT) has extreme science merits and engineering significance.
However, the underlying displacive atom collective movements for the transition from face …