Phase transformations and compatibility in helical structures

DOI10.1016/J.JMPS.2019.06.014MaRDI QIDQ2075609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fan Feng, Paul Plucinsky, Richard D. James

Publication date 15 February 2022

Published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06282

zbMATH Keywords

artificial musclecompatibility conditionhelical structuremicrostructurephase transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Crystalline structure (74E15) Analysis of microstructure in solids (74N15) Phase transformations in solids (74N99)

Abstract: We systematically study phase transformations from one helical structure to another. Motivated in part by recent work that relates the presence of compatible interfaces with properties such as the hysteresis and reversibility of a phase transformation [35, 33, 12, 28], we give necessary and sufficient conditions on the structural parameters of two helical phases such that they are compatible. We show that, locally, four types of compatible interface are possible: vertical, horizontal, helical and elliptical. We discuss the mobility of these interfaces and give examples of systems of interfaces that are mobile and could be used to fully transform a helical structure from one phase to another. These results provide a basis for the tuning of helical structural parameters so as to achieve compatibility of phases. In the case of transformations in crystals, this kind of tuning has led to materials with exceptionally low hysteresis and dramatically improved resistance to transformational fatigue. Compatible helical transformations with low hysteresis and fatigue resistance would exhibit an unusual shape memory effect involving both twist and extension, and may have potential applications as new artificial muscles and actuators.

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