It is often observed that martensitic microstructures in adjacent polycrystal grains are related. For example, micrographs of Arlt exhibit propagation of layered structures across grain boundaries in the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transformation in BaTiO3. Such observations are related to requirements of compatibility of the deformation at the grain boundary. Using a generalization of the Hadamard jump condition, this is explored in the nonlinear elasticity model of martensitic transformations for the case of a bicrystal with suitably oriented columnar geometry, in which the microstructure in both grains is assumed to involve just two martensitic variants, with a planar or non-planar interface between the grains.
@article{arxiv.1708.03286,
title = {Interaction of martensitic microstructures in adjacent grains},
author = {John M. Ball and Carsten Carstensen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03286},
year = {2017}
}
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6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ICOMAT 2017 Proceedings