| About this Abstract | 
   
    | Meeting | 2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition | 
   
    | Symposium | Phase Transformations and Microstructural Evolution | 
   
    | Presentation Title | Monte Carlo Simulation and Three-dimensional Diffuse Scattering Study of Martensitic Transformation | 
   
    | Author(s) | Xiaoxu  Guo, Yongmei M. Jin, Yu U.  Wang, Yang  Ren | 
   
    | On-Site Speaker (Planned) | Yongmei M. Jin | 
   
    | Abstract Scope | A quasi-spin Ising model of ferroelastic phase transition is developed and employed to perform Monte Carlo simulation of thermoelastic martensitic transformation. The quasi-spin variable associated with the lattice sites characterizes the local unit cells of the orientation variants of the ground-state martensite phase, which interact with each other through long-range elastic interactions. The simulation study focuses on the intrinsic behaviors of a defect-free crystal that undergoes cubic-to-tetragonal martensitic transformation. Diffuse scattering is calculated from the simulated microstructures during the transformation. It is shown that the diffuse scattering in the pre-martensitic austenite state results from the spatial correlation of the atomic-scale heterogeneous lattice displacements and manifests the displacement short-range ordering. The effects of temperature, elastic anisotropy, and shear modulus softening on diffuse scattering, displacement short-range ordering, and martensitic transformation are investigated. The simulated diffuse scattering is compared and agrees with the complementary synchrotron X-ray single-crystal diffuse scattering experiment of Ni-Mn-Ga alloys. | 
   
    | Proceedings Inclusion? | Planned: |