Long-time behavior of the $\omega \to \alpha$ transition in shocked Zirconium: Interplay of nucleation and plastic deformation

Cristiano Nisoli, Honxiang Zong, Stephen R. Niezgoda +2

We study the thermally activated, slow conversion of the hysteretically retained $\omega$ phase into stable $\alpha$ phase in recovered samples of shocked zirconium. The $\omega$-phase decays in…