Highly irregular microstructures and $T_N$ configurations
- đ¤ Speaker: John Ball (Heriot-Watt University)
- đ Date & Time: Tuesday 19 August 2025, 11:30 - 12:15
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
Remarkable martensitic microstructures are observed in the alloy \Tn, which undergoes a cubic to orthorhombic transformation with six martensitic variants $\mathbf U_i=\mathbf U_iT>0$ having middle eigenvalue $\lambda_2(\mathbf U_i)$ very close to 1. Assuming that $\lambda_2(\mathbf U_i)=1$ there are exactly 12 matrices in the set of energy wells $\bigcup_{i=1}6SO(3)\mathbf U_i$ that are rank-one connected to $\mathbf 1$. This set of 12 matrices has no rank-one connections. We attempt to understand the observed microstructures by studying gradient Young measures, exact gradients and $T_N$-configurations supported on these 12 matrices. This is joint work with Tomonari Inamura and Francesco Della Porta.
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John Ball (Heriot-Watt University)
Tuesday 19 August 2025, 11:30-12:15