Tuesday, May 13

10:30 AM-12:10 PM
Peale A Room

MS17
Martensites and Ferroelectrics (Part I of II)

Fine scale microstructure lies at the heart of various active materials like martensites and ferroelectrics. The speakers in this minisymposium will discuss recent advances in understanding the nature of such microstructure and the dynamics of their evolution. This minisymposium will consist of two sessions. The first focuses on dynamics; here the understanding is largely limited to model problems in one dimension. The second explores the microstructure in two or three dimensions; here the understanding is largely limited to statics.

Organizers: Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology; and Pieter J. Swart, Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:30-10:50 On the Kinetics of an Impact Induced Phase Transformation

Rohan Abeyaratne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and James K. Knowles, California Insitute of Technology

10:55-11:15 Energy Dissipation in Martensites

Oscar Bruno, California Institute of Technology

11:20-11:40 Dynamic Stability of Energetically Unstable Phase Mixtures

Gero Friesecke, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

11:45-12:05 Kinetics of a Phase Boundary with Corners and Edges

Narendra K. Simha, California Institute of Technology; and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Organizer

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