Wednesday, May 24

MS32
Elastic Compatibility and Phase Transitions: 3D and General Boundary Conditions - Part I of II

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Independence A

For Part II, see MS39

Recent progress in understanding microstructure in solid-solid structural phase transformations in 2D, within the energy minimizer schemes and/or the continuum elasticity models that explicitly account for elastic compatibility conditions at the interfaces, has opened new avenues for exploration in 3D and general boundary conditions. This two-part minisymposium aims to serve as a bridge between the Ginzburg-Landau and Energy Minimizer techniques.The speakers will discuss microstructure in ferroelectrics, magnetoelastics, high-temperature superconductors and constrained ferroelastics including thin films and other confined geometries, the relationship between multi-scale structures and physical properties, and the effect of external fields.

Organizers: Turab Lookman
University of West Ontario, Canada; and Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Avadh Saxena
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

10:00-10:25 Phase Field Method: Domain Structure in Hexagonal to Orthorhombic Transition
Long-Qing Chen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
10:30-10:55 Mathematical Modeling of Shape Memory Materials: TiNi and AuCd
Gerhard R. Barsch, Pennsylvania State University, USA
11:00-11:25 Tetragonal to Orthorhombic Transition in Constrained Ferroelastics
Allan E. Jacobs, University of Toronto, Canada
11:30-11:55 Three Dimensional Elastic Compatibility and Martensitic Textures
Avadh B. Saxena, Organizer

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