ABSTRACT

Continuum Models for Phase Transitions and Twinning in Crystals presents the fundamentals of a remarkably successful approach to crystal thermomechanics. Developed over the last two decades, it is based on the mathematical theory of nonlinear thermoelasticity, in which a new viewpoint on material symmetry, motivated by molecular theories, plays a c

chapter |6 pages

Contents

chapter |6 pages

List of figures

chapter |4 pages

List of tables

chapter |2 pages

Foreword

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Preliminaries

chapter 3|46 pages

Simple lattices

chapter 5|38 pages

Explicit variant structures

chapter 6|34 pages

Energetics

chapter 7|40 pages

Bifurcation patterns

chapter 8|24 pages

Mechanical twinning

chapter 9|24 pages

Transformation twins

chapter 10|14 pages

Microstructures

chapter 11|50 pages

Kinematics of multilattices