Back to Departmental Colloquium: Spring 2005
Departmental Colloquium
Date: Wednesday, Feb 23, 2005
Time: 4:15PM
Location: JWB 335
Special Colloquium Wednesday
Thin Films of Martensitic Materials: Can We Predict Their Microstructure?
Title |
Thin Films of Martensitic Materials: Can We Predict Their Microstructure? |
Abstract |
The shape memory effect is an important manifestation of the martensitic phase transformation, a phenomenon observed in various metallic alloys, ceramics, and even biological systems. Because of their technological applications as microactuators, martensitic thin films utilizing the shape memory effect have been intensively studied in recent years. In view of these and other potential applications, it is essential to rigorously understand how effective thin film models can be derived from three-dimensional Nonlinear Elasticity. I will present a new mathematical theory of martensitic thin films and discuss its connections with a number of recent results in this direction. |
Mathematical Biology
Materials Science
Applied Mathematics