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 …

Heterogeneities and strain glass behavior: Role of nanoscale precipitates in low-temperature-aged TiNi alloys

Y Ji, X Ding, T Lookman, K Otsuka, X Ren - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2013 - APS
A frozen short-range, strain-ordered state has been observed in several doped
ferroelastic/martensitic alloys. The reported strain glass behavior has been attributed to …

Dislocation induced strain glass in Ti50Ni45Fe5 alloy

J Zhang, D Xue, X Cai, X Ding, X Ren, J Sun - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Short-range strain-ordered strain glass (STG) appears when the kinetic limitation (local
stress field produced by random defects) is strong enough to suppress thermodynamic …

Direct evidence for local symmetry breaking during a strain glass transition

Y Zhou, D Xue, Y Tian, X Ding, S Guo, K Otsuka, J Sun… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Strain glass transition is a unique nanoscale displacive transition with local symmetry
breaking while maintaining the macroscopic symmetry or average structure unchanged. It …

A new mechanism for low and temperature-independent elastic modulus

L Zhang, D Wang, X Ren, Y Wang - Scientific Reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The first Elinvar alloy, FeNiCr, which has invariant elastic modulus over a wide
temperature range, was discovered almost 100 years ago by Guillaume. The physical origin …

Defect strength and strain glass state in ferroelastic systems

D Wang, D Lv, Y Gao, Y Wang, X Ren… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2016 - Elsevier
It has been shown both experimentally and by computer simulations that stress-carrying
defects can change a normal sharp first-order martensitic transformation (MT) to a …

Percolated strain networks and universal scaling properties of strain glasses

H Zong, H Wu, X Tao, D Xue, J Sun, SJ Pennycook… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Strain glass is being established as a conceptually new state of matter in highly doped
alloys, yet the understanding of its microscopic formation mechanism remains elusive. Here …

Doping effects of point defects in shape memory alloys

Y Yang, D Xue, R Yuan, Y Zhou, T Lookman, X Ding… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Doping point defects into shape memory alloys (SMAs) influences their transformation
behaviors and mechanical properties. We propose a general Landau free energy model to …

Laser filamentation as a new phase transition universality class

W Ettoumi, J Kasparian, JP Wolf - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We show that the onset of laser multiple filamentation can be described as a critical
phenomenon that we characterize both experimentally and numerically by measuring a set …

High temperature strain glass transition in defect doped Ti–Pd martensitic alloys

Y Zhou, D Xue, X Ding, K Otsuka, J Sun… - physica status solidi …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Strain glass alloys exhibit novel functionalities around their glass transition temperatureT0;
but T0 is too low for TiNi‐based strain glass alloys, restricting their potential applications. It is …