Martensitic transformation and electrical properties of a Ni<Subscript>2.14</Subscript>Mn<Subscript>0.81</Subscript>Fe<Subscript>0.05</Subscript>Ga alloy in its different structural states

Phase transformations in a Ni_2.14Mn_0.81Fe_0.05Ga alloy in different structural states are studied from the temperature dependences of its electrical resistivity. The dependences obtained indicate that, in the coarse-grained state, this alloy undergoes two structural phase transformations: intermartensitic modulation transformation and martensite-austenite transformation. In the nanocrystalline state, these transformations are absent. The recrystallization of a nanocrystalline sample at 773 K for 30 min results in the martensite-austenite transformation; however, the phase transformation related to a change in the martensite modulation period does not occur in this state. The resistivity is shown to depend on the structural state of the alloy.     

基于快速骨架提取的三维目标识别(英文)

针对三维目标识别问题,提出了一种基于快速骨架提取的方法。根据骨架所反映的目标拓扑结构,建立了不同目标局部结构之间的对应关系;而在对应的局部曲线段上,采用基于曲线配准的方法进行匹配;以各个局部匹配的成本之和评估不同目标的相似性.这种方法在目标出现一定程度的视觉变形时仍具有较好的识别效果,同时避免了基于曲线方法的匹配目标的局部,而忽略局部之间相互的空间组织的缺点所造成的误匹配.算例结果表明这种算法对于三维目标有较好的识别效果.     

基于快速骨架提取的三维目标识别

针对三维目标识别问题,提出了一种基于快速骨架提取的方法。根据骨架所反映的目标拓扑结构,建立了不同目标局部结构之间的对应关系;而在对应的局部曲线段上,采用基于曲线配准的方法进行匹配;以各个局部匹配的成本之和评估不同目标的相似性.这种方法在目标出现一定程度的视觉变形时仍具有较好的识别效果,同时避免了基于曲线方法的匹配目标的局部,而忽略局部之间相互的空间组织的缺点所造成的误匹配.算例结果表明这种算法对于三维目标有较好的识别效果.     

Two scenarios for phase-transformation in disordered media

The reasons for the existence of various scenarios for structural transformations in disordered condensed media, such as liquids and amorphous substances, where both smeared transformations and sharp first-order transitions may occur, were analyzed. The ratio between the spatial scale of structural correlations and the size of the smallest possible region occupied by a new phase in the matrix of initial modification is the key parameter determining the scenario for equilibrium phase transformations in liquids. In amorphous substances, the experimentally observed transformations occur far from equilibrium, and the possible size of the region occupied by the new phase corresponds to the minimal nucleus size. For some amorphous solids, quantitative analysis of the transformation width was carried out and the main classes of covalent substances, in which the smeared or sharp transitions occur, were revealed. Specific features of the interparticle interactions determining various transformation scenarios are discussed.     

Pyroxenes: Structural transformations,local fields,and effects of short-range ordering of cations

To reveal the physical nature of the structural transformations caused by changes in temperature, pressure, or composition, the topological stability of five pyroxene structures of Si-Ge solid solutions was investigated by powder X-ray diffraction. Four structural transformations were provoked by selective substitution of cations, the corresponding changes in local fields in the key structural position M1 were investigated by Mössbauer spectroscopy.     

Phase formation and structural changes in the chromium-silicon system exposed to compressed plasma fluxes

The results of the study of structural and phase transformations in the silicon substrate-chromium coating system exposed to compression plasma fluxes with power densities of 0.3–1.2 GW/m² are discussed. The formation of hexagonal chromium disilicide and an amorphous phase, the growth of silicon dendrites, and the appearance of a chromium-enriched near-surface layer are revealed effects. The mechanisms of structural and phase transformations caused by rapid cooling of a mixed melt and concentration overcooling during solidification are analyzed.     

Mechanical stresses in an irradiated target with a disturbed surface

Mechanical stresses generated in a disturbed-surface solid target irradiated by intense fluxes of accelerated charged particles are studied numerically and analytically. The disturbed surface is needed to analyze the influence of microirregularities present on real surfaces on the stress pattern. Three basic components of the stress field are revealed: a shock wave; stresses localized in the energy liberation region; and disturbed stresses, which are due to the disturbed surface. The disturbed stresses are localized in a surface layer of width comparable to the disturbance wavelength and account for about 30% of the field stress energy. It is concluded that the disturbance of the surface and disturbance-induced stresses should be taken into account in analysis of structural transformations under irradiation.     

Using synchrotron radiation to study the structure of calcium-phosphate films on the surfaces of medical implants

In situ X-ray diffractometry with synchrotron radiation (SR) is used to study structural transformations in thin films of calcium-phosphate on the surfaces of medical implants made from alumina ceramics and oxidized titanium. The temperature limits of crystallization and structural composition of films on various substrates are found.     

Peculiarities of the mechanoelectrical response in dielectric materials in the region of structural phase transformations

The influence of thermally induced structural phase transformations on the electromagnetic response of gypsum upon impact excitation is investigated. It is found that the electromagnetic response upon impact excitation is the structure-sensitive characteristics of dielectric materials. Data on the character of phase transformations in gypsum heated above 150°C are obtained using X-ray diffraction techniques.     

The boson peak and nanostructure of vitreous benzophenone

The temperature behavior of the low-frequency Raman spectra of vitreous and supercooled liquid benzophenones is investigated experimentally. The structural phase transformations are studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The results obtained suggest that the structure of glasses involves nanometer-sized fragments similar to the structural elements of the crystals.     

New infinite-dimensional symmetry groups for the stationary axisymmetric Einstein--Maxwell equations with multiple Abelian gauge fields

The so-called extended hyperbolic complex (EHC) function method is used to study further the stationary axisymmetric Einstein--Maxwell theory with $p$ Abelian gauge fields (EM-$p$ theory, for short). Two EHC structural Riemann--Hilbert (RH) transformations are constructed and are then shown to give an infinite-dimensional symmetry group of the EM-$p$ theory. This symmetry group is verified to have the structure of semidirect product of Kac--Moody group $\widehat{SU(p+1,1)}$ and Virasoro group. Moreover, the infinitesimal forms of these two RH transformations are calculated and found to give exactly the same infinitesimal transformations as in previous author's paper by a different scheme. This demonstrates that the results obtained in the present paper provide some exponentiations of all the infinitesimal symmetry transformations obtained before.     

Local structural transformations in the fcc lattice in various contact interaction. Molecular dynamics study

The work is a molecular dynamics study of the peculiarities of local structural transformations in a copper crystallite at the atomic level in contact interaction of various types: shear loading of perfectly conjugate surfaces, local shear loading and nanoindentation. Interatomic interaction is described in the framework of the embedded atom method. It is shown that initial accommodation of the loaded crystallite proceeds through local structural transformations giving rise to higher-rank defects such as dislocations, stacking faults, interfaces, etc. In further plastic deformation, the structural defects propagate from the contact zone to the crystallite bulk. The egress of structural defects to a free surface causes deformation of the model crystallite. The deformation pattern can evolve, depending on the loading conditions, with a change in crystallographic orientation of the crystallite near the contact zone, generation of misoriented nano-sized regions, and eventually formation of a stable nanostructural state. The obtained results allow conceptually new understanding of the nature of defect generation in a crystalline structure during the nucleation and development of plastic deformation in loaded materials.     

Scale invariance of structural transformations in plastically deformed nanostructured solids

The scale-invariant mechanical behavior of a nanostructured solid is associated with plastic distortion as a major mechanism of nano- and microscale structural transformations. Active grain boundary sliding in a deformed material (microscale) within its highly developed planar subsystem (nanograin boundaries) causes a progressive increase in lattice curvature and plastic distortion of atoms which produces nonequilibrium vacant sites in the nanostructure. The motion of nonequilibrium point defects in nanostructure curvature zones provides conditions for noncrystallographic plastic flow, dissolution or dispersion of initial phases, and formation of nonequilibrium phases in a deformed material. The possibility of reversible structural phase transformations in the presence of high lattice curvature opens the way to greatly increase the fatigue life of surface nanostructured polycrystalline materials.     

A microscopic insight into the deformation behavior of semicrystalline polymers: the role of phase transitions

The deformation behavior of semicrystalline polymers associated with polymorphic transformations under tensile deformation is discussed in the case of syndiotactic polypropylene. We report a phase diagram of this polymer where the regions of stability of the different polymorphic forms are defined as a function of the degree of stereoregularity and deformation. The values of critical strain corresponding to the structural transformations depend on the stereoregularity that affects the relative stability of the involved polymorphic forms and the state of the entangled amorphous phase.     

Structure and phase transformations caused by oxygen ion implantation into titanium

Secondary-ion mass spectrometry and transmission electron microscopy are used to investigate structural changes and phase transformations during ¹⁶O and ¹⁸O ion implantation into titanium at 100 and 300 K. For all implanted ion energies, there are the doses (saturation doses) after which the interstitial oxygen profile takes a final steady-state shape. The steady-state profile corresponds to a definite stable set of oxide phases, including TiO, rutile TiO₂, and TiO_1.5 layers. Under steady-state conditions, the film is composed of several oxide phases, whose structures depend on the target temperatures used in the irradiation process. At 100 K, the steady-state oxide system contains an amorphous phase layer with gas-filled bubbles instead of crystalline rutile.     

Calculation of the Probabilities of Molecular Transitions in Modeling Interisomeric Structural Transformations

The problems of a computational procedure in modeling structural isomer–isomer transitions in multiatomic molecules are considered. A number of approximations that allow one to considerably simplify calculation of the probabilities of these transformations are suggested. In comparison with traditional calculations of potential surfaces and determination of their saddle points, in the proposed approach the relationship between the electronic and vibrational components of a general problem is virtually changed. A particular emphasis is put on the vibrational part, which seems to be more physical. It is shown that the problem of structural isomer–isomer conversions can be solved without resorting at all to explicit calculation of the contribution of an electronic matrix element to the probability of transition. There is no need to study in detail the shapes of potential surfaces; it suffices only to know the positions of their minima. The calculation of multidimensional vibrational integrals is replaced by calculation of one-dimensional integrals. The results obtained form a basis for constructing methods for modeling the dynamic spectra of complex molecules considering their structural transformations.     

Ultrasound-initiated structural transformations in liquid crystals (A review)

The results of the studies of structural transformations in liquid crystal layers with homeotropic and planar macrostructures in the fields of longitudinal, surface, and shear ultrasonic waves are systematized and generalized.     

Structural Transformations in Nematic Liquid Crystals with a Hybrid Orientation

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - The structural transformations in a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) layer with a hybrid orientation (planar director orientation is created on one...     

Investigation of the thermoelastic phase transformation in a NiAl alloy by molecular dynamics simulation

The Ni_xAl_1−x alloys exhibit shape memory effect, for which thermoelastic phase transformations are essential, in the composition range of 60<x<65. The analytical studies are very difficult on the thermoelastic phase transformations because these types of transformations exhibit anharmonic behaviour. In order to overcome this difficulty, it is possible to benefit from the molecular dynamics (MD) calculations based on interatomic interaction potentials. In the present study, the interatomic interactions of Ni_62.5Al_37.5 alloy have been modelled by means of Lennard-Jones potential energy function. A MD cell of 1024 atoms in B2 super lattice has been chosen and the structural changes were investigated on this system with changing temperature. It has been observed that the model alloy exhibits the thermoelastic phase transformation with thermal cycling. A hysteresis has been determined between forward and backward transformation temperatures. The structural analysis is also done before and after the transformation.