Molecular dynamics simulations on one-way shape memory effect of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy and its cyclic degeneration

B Wang, G Kang, C Yu, B Gu, W Yuan - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The one-way shape memory effect (OWSME) of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy
(SMA) and its cyclic degeneration under thermo-mechanically coupled cyclic loading …

Molecular dynamics simulation of grain size effect on mechanism of twin martensite transformation of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys

B Liu, Z Li, C Du, W Wu - Computational Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, a constitutive model considering grain size and model size is established to
describe the stress-strain response of nanocrystalline NiTi Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) …

Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of the cyclic degradation of shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys

B Xu, C Yu, Q Kan, G Kang - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was
proposed to simulate the cyclic deformation of nano-polycrystalline NiTi shape memory …

Phase field simulation on the cyclic degeneration of one-way shape memory effect of NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal

B Xu, G Kang, Q Kan, C Yu, X Xie - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the framework of thermodynamics and based on the Ginzburg-Landau's theory and crystal
plasticity, a three-dimensional phase field model was constructed to predict the cyclic …

Atomistic study on the super-elasticity of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy subjected to a cyclic deformation

B Wang, G Kang, Q Kan, W Wu, K Zhou, C Yu - Computational Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
By establishing some atomistic simulation cells with the same size but different numbers of
grains, molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate the super-elasticity of …

Molecular dynamics simulations on nanocrystalline super-elastic NiTi shape memory alloy by addressing transformation ratchetting and its atomic mechanism

B Wang, G Kang, W Wu, K Zhou, Q Kan, C Yu - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The transformation ratchetting of super-elastic nanocrystalline (NC) NiTi shape memory
alloys (SMAs) under cyclic tension-unloading conditions and its deformation mechanism in …

Tension-Compression asymmetry of single-crystalline and nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy: An atomic scale study

X Chen, W Chen, Y Ma, Y Zhao, C Deng, X Peng… - Mechanics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the tension-compression asymmetry of single-crystalline and nanocrystalline
NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) was investigated by molecular dynamics (MD) …

Phase field simulation on the grain size dependent super-elasticity and shape memory effect of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys

B Xu, G Kang, C Yu, Q Kan - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on the Ginzburg-Landau's theory, the free energy function of polycrystalline
system was modified by introducing an extra grain boundary energy, and a new two …

Investigation on the micro-mechanism of martensitic transformation in nano-polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys using molecular dynamics simulations

Y Li, X Zeng, F Wang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the temperature-and stress-induced martensitic transformations in nano-
polycrystalline nickel-titanium shape memory alloys were investigated using molecular …

Transformation yield surface of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy

Y Zhang, S Jiang, G Zhao, K Guo - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is used for investigating mechanical behavior and
phase transformation in nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy (SMA) under complex …