Comprehensive review on experiment vs first-principles calculations
Our author team prepared a comprehensive review discussing the advances and limits of first principles calculations from the point of view of experimentalists. The review is due to be published…
The project results at Icomat
The project results related to the universal temperature dependence of twinning stress and to Landau-energy landscape reconstruction will be presented at the Icomat 2022 international conference. For the record of…
Universal temperature dependence of twinning stress
We made a unique investigation comparing twinning stress in Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory single crystals from various producers. We found that provided the crystal is free of significant defects, then…
Presentation at SMS Conference in Milan, Italy.
H. Seiner presented the results of publication P2 (Zoubková et al. Acta Mater 2022) at the Smart Materials and Surfaces 2021 conference in Milan, Italy. Presentation title: Landau-energy Landscape Reconstruction…
Landau-energy landscape reconstruction to describe nonlinear elasticity in (magnetic) shape memory alloys
The team at Institute of Thermomechanics in collaboration with Japanese and Spanish partners coined out the way how to effectively reflect and model the nonlinear elastic behavior in shape and…
Effect of electron localization on magnetic shape memory alloy design
We found the proper correction for electron localization, which strongly improves the accuracy of ab initio calculations on Ni-Mn-Ga based magnetic shape memory alloys. With the correction, the calculations (DFT…