Abstract
We investigate the geometry of polycrystals, showing that for polycrystals formed of convex grains the interior grains are polyhedral, while for polycrystals with general grain geometry the set of triple points is small. Then we investigate possible martensitic morphologies resulting from intergrain contact. For cubic-totetragonal transformations we show that homogeneous zero-energy microstructures matching a pure dilatation on a grain boundary necessarily involve more than four deformation gradients. We discuss the relevance of this result for observations of microstructures involving second and third-order laminates in various materials. Finally we consider the more specialized situation of bicrystals formed from materials having two martensitic energy wells (such as for orthorhombic to monoclinic transformations), but without any restrictions on the possible microstructure, showing how a generalization of the Hadamard jump condition can be applied at the intergrain boundary to show that a pure phase in either grain is impossible at minimum energy.
Highlights
In this paper we investigate the geometry of polycrystals and its implications for microstructure morphology within the nonlinear elasticity model of martensitic phase transformations [1, 2]
We consider the situation of a bicrystal with special geometry formed of a material undergoing a phase transformation with just two energy wells, and without further assumptions on the microstructure give conditions under which a zero-energy microstructure must be complex, i.e. cannot be a pure variant in either grain; this analysis uses a generalization of the Hadamard jump condition developed in [4]
In this paper we have provided a framework for discussing the effects of grain geometry on the microstructure of polycrystals as described by the nonlinear elasticity model of martensitic transformations
Summary
In this paper we investigate the geometry of polycrystals and its implications for microstructure morphology within the nonlinear elasticity model of martensitic phase transformations [1, 2]. A second issue is to develop useful forms of the compatibilty conditions at such points, expressed in terms of deformation gradients, which on the one hand do not make unjustified assumptions about the microstructure morphology, and on the other hand can be exploited to draw conclusions about that morphology. We consider the situation of a bicrystal with special geometry formed of a material undergoing a phase transformation with just two energy wells (such as cubicto-orthorhombic), and without further assumptions on the microstructure give conditions under which a zero-energy microstructure must be complex, i.e. cannot be a pure variant in either grain; this analysis uses a generalization of the Hadamard jump condition developed in [4].
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