Research Article

Effect of Aspect Ratio and Boundary Conditions in Modeling Shape Memory Alloy Nanostructures with 3D Coupled Dynamic Phase-Field Theories

Figure 5

(Color online) Self-accommodated microstructure in a 80 nm side SMA cube under (a) fully constrained, (b) normally constrained, and (c) fully periodic boundary conditions (red, blue, and green colors represent , , and variants, resp.).
(a) Fully constrained
(b) Normally constrainted
(c) Fully periodic