Journal
COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 105-117Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.05.060
Keywords
Shape memory effects; Thermo-mechanical coupling; Nanowires; Phase transformation; Twinning; Finite element method; Microstructures
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- NSERC
- CRC program, Canada
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In this paper, the dynamics of martensitic transformations in shape memory alloy (SMA) constrained finite nanostructures is studied using a phase field model with the Ginzburg-Landau free energy. The nonlinear coupled thermo-mechanical properties in SMAs have been extensively studied in the bulk case. However at the nanoscale the thermal physics has been usually neglected in a study of SMA properties, and most of the model developments have been carried out under the assumption of isothermal phase transformations. The main aim of this paper is to develop a model that couples the thermal physics and the mechanical dynamics to study the influence of such coupling on the mechanical properties of SMA nanostructures. The developed model is solved using the finite element method. Analyzing FePd alloy nanowires, we observe a steeper slope of the stress-strain curve in the coupled thermo-mechanical case due to temperature evolution during the loading-unloading cycle of such nanostructures. We also observe the martensitic suppression phenomenon in constrained nanowires and nanograins on cooling. We have developed a semi-analytical model to predict a critical size at the onset of martensitic suppression. The semi-analytical model predicts a critical size which is in a good agreement with the numerical results for FePd nanograins. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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