A model for diffusive and displacive phase transitions in steels

Maraldi, Mirko (2010) A model for diffusive and displacive phase transitions in steels, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Ingegneria delle macchine e dei sistemi energetici, 22 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/2929.
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Abstract

Heat treatment of steels is a process of fundamental importance in tailoring the properties of a material to the desired application; developing a model able to describe such process would allow to predict the microstructure obtained from the treatment and the consequent mechanical properties of the material. A steel, during a heat treatment, can undergo two different kinds of phase transitions [p.t.]: diffusive (second order p.t.) and displacive (first order p.t.); in this thesis, an attempt to describe both in a thermodynamically consistent framework is made; a phase field, diffuse interface model accounting for the coupling between thermal, chemical and mechanical effects is developed, and a way to overcome the difficulties arising from the treatment of the non-local effects (gradient terms) is proposed. The governing equations are the balance of linear momentum equation, the Cahn-Hilliard equation and the balance of internal energy equation. The model is completed with a suitable description of the free energy, from which constitutive relations are drawn. The equations are then cast in a variational form and different numerical techniques are used to deal with the principal features of the model: time-dependency, non-linearity and presence of high order spatial derivatives. Simulations are performed using DOLFIN, a C++ library for the automated solution of partial differential equations by means of the finite element method; results are shown for different test-cases. The analysis is reduced to a two dimensional setting, which is simpler than a three dimensional one, but still meaningful.

Abstract
Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Maraldi, Mirko
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Scuola di dottorato
Ingegneria industriale
Ciclo
22
Coordinatore
Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
Phase transitions, thermodynamics, phase-field model, DOLFIN
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/2929
Data di discussione
30 Aprile 2010
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