Original scientific paper
Mechanical strain and structural phase transition in small particles
Magdy Lučić Lavčević
; Department of Physics, Faculty of Technology, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
Zvonko Ogorelec
; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Strain energy as a part of the Gibbs free-energy change during the structural phase transition in small particles has been analysed. A special attention has been paid to the transitions that are characterized by small latent heats and large volume changes (large strains in the crystal lattice). Under the assumption that the dilatation of the nucleus of the phase just in formation causes plastic deformation of the particle, a new expression for the strain energy has been formulated. It shows that this energy may be greatly reduced if particles are sufficiently small.
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299574
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Publication date:
1.9.1995.
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