Continuum Modeling of Phase Transitions in Solids
- Creators
- Knowles, James K.
- Others:
- Boehler, Jean-Paul
- Khan, Akhtar S.
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a simple phenomenological thermoelastic model for stress-induced solid-solid phase transitions in a tensile bar. In this model, the bar is treated as a one-dimensional continuum, and the phase transition is assumed to take place quasi-statically and isothermally at a temperature θ. By accounting for temperature effects solely in the kinetics of the phase transition, we show that some of the qualitative features of the experimental observations in [1] can be predicted, even though the effects of temperature on the nucleation of the transition and on the stress-strain relation have been neglected. A purely mechanical counterpart of the theory described here has been given in [2]; the latter work, as well as a mechanical theory of fast phase transitions in solids, is reviewed in [3].
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© 1991 Elsevier.Additional details
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- 50803
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20141024-135721760
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