Shape memory alloys and other active materials undergo displacive phase transitions which change the symmetry of the crystal lattice through a diffusionless coordinated motion of atoms. A signature feature of these materials is the hysteresis they exhibit in response to cyclic loading. The dissipation is due to propagating phase boundaries that ...
Created:
2011-05-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Mass-action kinetics is a powerful tool to describe events created by collission of molecules or individuals in a well-mixed environment giving them locally the same probability to meet each other. Moreover this probability is only dependent on the concentration of the mutual partners. Mass action systems can be found in chemistry, cell biology,...
Creator:
Kirkilionis, Markus (University of Warwick)
Created:
2007-03-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.