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Selected Works of Valery I. Levitas
Article
Interface reorientation during coherent phase transformations
Europhysics Letters (2007)
  • Valery I. Levitas, Texas Tech University
  • I. B. Ozsoy, Texas Tech University
  • D. L. Preston, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Abstract

The universal thermodynamic driving force for coherent plane interface reorientation (IR) during first-order phase transformations (PT) in solids is derived. The relation between the rates of IR and interface propagation (IP) and the corresponding driving forces are derived for combined athermal and drag interface friction. The coupled evolution of IR and IP during cubic-tetragonal and tetragonal-orthorhombic PTs under three-dimensional loading is studied. An instability in the interface orientation is shown to have the features of a first-order PT.

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Publication Date
April, 2007
Publisher Statement

This article is from Europhysics Letters78 (2007): 16003, doi:10.1209/0295-5075/78/16003. Posted with permission.

Citation Information
Valery I. Levitas, I. B. Ozsoy and D. L. Preston. "Interface reorientation during coherent phase transformations" Europhysics Letters Vol. 78 (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/valery_levitas/23/