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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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71
Citations
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World Ranking
371
National Ranking
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Materials Science

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71
Citations
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World Ranking
4330
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Valery I. Levitas is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research spans multiple focused subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • High-velocity impact and material behavior
  • Advanced materials and composites
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties of steels
  • Nuclear materials and properties
  • Solidification and crystal growth phenomena

Levitas has a significant publication record with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Acta Materialia
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • npj Computational Materials

Notable recent papers authored by Levitas and collaborators include:

  • Phase transformations, fracture, and other structural changes in inelastic materials, 2020, International Journal of Plasticity
  • Nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation: review of historical developments and recent advances, 2022, Materials Research Letters
  • Severe plastic deformation for producing superfunctional ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials: An interdisciplinary review, 2024, Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • An atomistic-to-microscale computational analysis of the dislocation pileup-induced local stresses near an interface in plastically deformed two-phase materials, 2022, Acta Materialia
  • In situ quantitative study of plastic strain-induced phase transformations under high pressure: Example for ultra-pure Zr, 2020, Acta Materialia

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

  • Changyong Park
  • Sorb Yesudhas
  • K. K. Pandey
  • Feng Lin
  • Raghunandan Pratoori

Throughout their career, Levitas has published predominantly in the overlapping areas of materials science and engineering, with a strong interdisciplinary focus involving computational methods, mechanical behavior, and phase transformations under extreme conditions. Their work often addresses the mechanisms behind microstructural evolution and phase changes driven by severe plastic deformation and high-pressure environments.

Levitas was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2007, indicating a formal acknowledgment from the engineering community regarding their contributions to the field.

Best Publications

  • Nanomaterials by severe plastic deformation: review of historical developments and recent advances

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  • Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing

    Huilong Hou;Emrah Simsek;Tao Ma;Nathan S. Johnson

  • A Variational Formulation of Rate-Independent Phase Transformations Using an Extremum Principle

    Alexander Mielke;Florian Theil;Valery I. Levitas

  • Three-dimensional Landau theory for multivariant stress-induced martensitic phase transformations. I. Austenite↔martensite

    Valery I. Levitas;Dean L. Preston

  • Thermomechanical theory of martensitic phase transformations in inelastic materials

    Valery I. Levitas

  • Melt dispersion mechanism for fast reaction of nanothermites

    Valery I. Levitas;Blaine W. Asay;Steven F. Son;Michelle Pantoya

  • Imaging stress and magnetism at high pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor.

    Satcher Hsieh;Satcher Hsieh;Prabudhya Bhattacharyya;Prabudhya Bhattacharyya;Chong Zu;Thomas Mittiga

  • Fast reactions with nano- and micrometer aluminum: A study on oxidation versus fluorination

    Kyle W. Watson;Michelle L. Pantoya;Valery I. Levitas

  • Mechanochemical mechanism for fast reaction of metastable intermolecular composites based on dispersion of liquid metal

    Valery I. Levitas;Blaine W. Asay;Steven F. Son;Michelle Pantoya

  • High-pressure mechanochemistry: Conceptual multiscale theory and interpretation of experiments

    Valery I. Levitas

  • Three-dimensional Landau theory for multivariant stress-induced martensitic phase transformations. III. Alternative potentials, critical nuclei, kink solutions, and dislocation theory

    Valery I. Levitas;Dean L. Preston;Dong Wook Lee

  • Severe plastic deformation for producing Superfunctional ultrafine-grained and heterostructured materials: An interdisciplinary review

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  • Size and mechanics effects in surface-induced melting of nanoparticles

    Valery I Levitas;Kamran Samani

  • Three-dimensional Landau theory for multivariant stress-induced martensitic phase transformations. II. Multivariant phase transformations and stress space analysis

    Valery I. Levitas;Dean L. Preston

  • Interface Propagation and Microstructure Evolution in Phase Field Models of Stress-Induced Martensitic Phase Transformations

    Valery I. Levitas;Dong-Wook Lee;Dong-Wook Lee;Dean L. Preston

  • Shear-induced phase transition of nanocrystalline hexagonal boron nitride to wurtzitic structure at room temperature and lower pressure

    Cheng Ji;Valery I. Levitas;Hongyang Zhu;Jharna Chaudhuri

  • Melt dispersion versus diffusive oxidation mechanism for aluminum nanoparticles: Critical experiments and controlling parameters

    Valery I. Levitas;Michelle L. Pantoya;Birce Dikici

  • Displacive phase transitions at large strains: phase-field theory and simulations.

    Valery I. Levitas;Vladimir A. Levin;Konstantin M. Zingerman;Eugene I. Freiman

  • Surface tension and energy in multivariant martensitic transformations: phase-field theory, simulations, and model of coherent interface.

    Valery I. Levitas;Mahdi Javanbakht

  • Phase-field theory for martensitic phase transformations at large strains

    Valery I. Levitas

  • Multiphase phase field theory for temperature- and stress-induced phase transformations

    Valery I. Levitas;Arunabhas M. Roy

  • Multiple twinning and variant-variant transformations in martensite: Phase-field approach

    Valery I. Levitas;Arunabha M. Roy;Dean L. Preston

  • MECHANOCHEMICAL MECHANISM FOR FAST REACTION OF METASTABLE INTERMOLECULAR COMPOSITES BASED ON DISPERSION OF LIQUID METAL

    Michelle L. Pantoya;Valery I. Levitas

Frequent Co-Authors

Erwin Stein
Erwin Stein University of Hannover
Michelle L. Pantoya
Michelle L. Pantoya Texas Tech University
Duane D. Johnson
Duane D. Johnson Iowa State University
Joel E. Moore
Joel E. Moore Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Matthew J. Kramer
Matthew J. Kramer Ames Laboratory
Nobumichi Tamura
Nobumichi Tamura Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Holtz
Mark Holtz Texas State University
Raymond Jeanloz
Raymond Jeanloz University of California, Berkeley
Viktor V. Struzhkin
Viktor V. Struzhkin Carnegie Institution for Science
Marc A. Meyers
Marc A. Meyers University of California, San Diego

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