Modeling martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys using multi-phase-field elasticity models based on partial rank-one energy relaxation on pairwise interfaces

Abstract: To model the mechanically-driven phase transformations, e.g. martensitic transformation, using the phase-field theory, suitable models are needed for describing the mechanical fields of the individual non-vanishing phase-fields in the interface regions in order to obtain the mechanical driving forces of phase-field motion. Quantitative modeling requires satisfying the interfacial static equilibrium and kinematic compatibility conditions which have already been achieved in the literature for dual-phase-field materials by using the rank-one relaxation (or convexification) of the energy density. A direct generalization to the multi-phase-field case is not applicable without breaking these conditions partially. To the best of our knowledge, no existing multi-phase-field elasticity model has been able to satisfy the jump conditions between all the locally-active phase-fields on their pairwise normals in triple and higher-order junctions. In this work, we introduce a novel multi-phase-field elasticity model based on the partial rank-one relaxation of the elastic energy density defined on the pairwise interfaces...... (see PDF for the rest of the abstract)