To fill the gap between accurate (and expensive) ab initio calculations and efficient atomistic
simulations based on empirical interatomic potentials, a new class of descriptions of atomic …

Rapid progress in material science and nanotechnology has led to the development of the
shape memory alloys (SMA) and the shape memory polymers (SMP) based functional …

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed to investigate temperature-and stress-
induced phase transformations in nanocrystalline nickel-titanium shape-memory alloys. Our …

Large scale atomistic simulations provide direct access to important materials phenomena
not easily accessible to experiments or quantum mechanics-based calculation approaches …

Shear-induced amorphization is a phenomenon observed in polycrystalline NiTi shape
memory alloys under severe plastic deformation, but the underlying mechanism of such a …

Application spectrum of shape memory alloys (SMA) is expanding rapidly and
proportionately so is the engineering demand for superior materials. An essential …

Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are of interest for ultrahigh-temperature
applications. To overcome their drawbacks—low-temperature brittleness and poor creep …

Ti exhibits complex plastic deformation controlled by active dislocation and twinning
systems. Understandings on dislocation cores and twin interfaces are currently not complete …

Abstract Precipitation of Ni 4 Ti 3 in NiTi alloy profoundly affects material properties, while
the coherency strain fields and their effects on the thermally-induced martensitic …

The one-way shape memory effect (OWSME) of nanocrystalline NiTi shape memory alloy
(SMA) and its cyclic degeneration under thermo-mechanically coupled cyclic loading …