Nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation: review of historical developments and recent advances

K Edalati, A Bachmaier, VA Beloshenko… - Materials Research …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is effective in producing bulk ultrafine-grained and
nanostructured materials with large densities of lattice defects. This field, also known as …

Recent in situ experimental and theoretical advances in severe plastic deformations, strain-induced phase transformations, and microstructure evolution under high …

VI Levitas - Materials transactions, 2023 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Severe plastic deformations (SPD) under high pressure, mostly by high-pressure torsion, are
employed for producing nanostructured materials and stable or metastable high-pressure …

Unusual plastic strain-induced phase transformation phenomena in silicon

S Yesudhas, VI Levitas, F Lin, KK Pandey… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pressure-induced phase transformations (PTs) in Si, the most important electronic material,
have been broadly studied, whereas strain-induced PTs have never been studied in situ …

An atomistic-to-microscale computational analysis of the dislocation pileup-induced local stresses near an interface in plastically deformed two-phase materials

Y Peng, R Ji, T Phan, W Gao, VI Levitas, L Xiong - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Taking the two-phase material as a model system, here we perform atomistic-to-microscale
computational analysis on how the dislocations pileup is formed at a buried interface …

Phase transformations, fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials

VI Levitas - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
Review of selected fundamental topics on the interaction between phase transformations,
fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials is presented. It mostly focuses on …

[HTML][HTML] Severe plastic deformation for producing Superfunctional ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials: An interdisciplinary review

K Edalati, AQ Ahmed, S Akrami, K Ameyama… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials are currently of high interest due to their
superior mechanical and functional properties. Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is one of …

A large deformation constitutive model for plastic strain-induced phase transformation of stainless steels at cryogenic temperatures

M Homayounfard, M Ganjiani - International Journal of Plasticity, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new constitutive model for plastic behavior of the metastable austenitic
stainless steels at cryogenic temperatures is presented. The constitutive model is a …

Awakening the metastability of an interstitial high entropy alloy via severe deformation

S Zhu, D Yan, K Gan, W Lu, Z Li - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The metastability of a typical non-equiatomic FeMnCoCr high-entropy alloy (HEA) system
was demonstrated to be dormant upon co-doping with C and N interstitials, ie, displacive γ-ε …

Finite-strain scale-free phase-field approach to multivariant martensitic phase transformations with stress-dependent effective thresholds

H Babaei, VI Levitas - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2020 - Elsevier
A scale-free phase-field model for martensitic phase transformations (PTs) at finite strains is
developed as an essential generalization of small-strain models in Levitas et al.(2004) and …

A coupled phase-field and crystal plasticity model for understanding shock-induced phase transition of iron

S Yao, J Yu, X Pei, Y Cui, H Zhang, H Peng, Y Li… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the current work, we propose a chemical-potential-based phase-field model coupled with
dynamic crystal plasticity based on a unified energy framework with the aim of …