10.6084/m9.figshare.963423.v1
Yi Wang
Yi
Wang
Tae Wook Heo
Tae
Wook Heo
Long-Qing Chen
Long-Qing
Chen
Spinodal twinning of a deformed crystal
Taylor & Francis Group
2014
twinning
deformed
spinodal
2014-03-17 15:50:38
Journal contribution
https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Spinodal_twinning_of_a_deformed_crystal/963423
<div><p>We propose the possibility of a spinodal mechanism for deformation twinning in addition to the nucleation and growth mechanism assumed in all existing studies of twinning, using the thermodynamic stability analysis of a homogeneously deformed crystal by examining its energy landscape as a function of strain along the twinning direction obtained from first-principles calculations. Twinning occurs continuously owing to thermodynamic instability with respect to twinning at large shear strains, whereas it can only take place through the nucleation and growth mechanism at small shear strains.</p></div>