Shearing during Heating Melting experiments during deformation have been performed at melting rates slow enough relative to deformation rates to preserve a high proportion of the solid to solid contacts. Figure 11a is a time-lapse movie from a melting and deformation experiment. Melting of the blue phase crystals is most noticeable, but white and cube phase crystals are also melting. During melting, localized zone of deformation is developed near the area where large amount of melt is generated mostly by dissolution of the blue phase crystals. Constructed from 11th to 16th frames, relative to the 11th frame.
Squares represent the initial positions of material points.
The red region represents the blue phase crystals at the initial stage for each particle trajectory. The yellow represents the blue phase crystals at the last stage for each displacement map. The particle trajectories in Figure 11b are the trajectories constructed from the 11th to 16th frames after the 11th frame. The reference frame origin for the trajectory map is indicated by a star in Figure 11b, and horizontal edges of photomicrographs were used as one axis of an orthogonal reference frame. The shortening in the upper region is the result of blue phase crystal melting or the result of melt extraction and consequent displacement of white phase crystals.