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Adv Mater. 2013 Jun 18;25(23):3244-8. doi: 10.1002/adma.201300655. Epub 2013 May 06.

Mechanical loss in multiferroic materials at high frequencies: friction and the evolution of ferroelastic microstructures.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

Z Zhao, X Ding, T Lookman, J Sun, E K H Salje

Affiliations

  1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.

PMID: 23649792 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201300655

Abstract

Energy absorption in multiferroic materials stems typically from strain relaxation which can be strong even when no extrinsic defects exist in the material. Computer simulations of a simple two-dimensional model on a generic, proper ferroelastic material identify the dissipative mechanisms associated with the dynamical motion as: a) advance and retraction of needle-shaped twin domains and, b) movement of kinks inside twin boundaries. Both movements involve friction losses.

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