Abstract
Effects of heat treatment temperature and time on the microstructure and shape memory behaviors (e.g. transformation temperatures, load-biased shape memory effect, superelasticity, two-way shape memory effect, and related properties) were investigated in a Ni45.3Ti29.7Hf20Cu5 (at%) high temperature polycrystalline shape memory alloy. Heat treatments could be used to control the TTs and to a lesser extent recoverable and irrecoverable strains. The Ni45.3Ti29.7Hf20Cu5 alloy was capable of recovering shape memory strains of up to 2% at temperatures above 100°C under high compressive stresses (700MPa) and up to 0.8% TWSME strain was possible after a non-intense stress-cycling training process. However, due to high Clausius-Clapeyron slopes, large temperature hysteresis, and a strong dependence of transformation stress on temperature, fully recoverable superelastic behavior was not observed because plastic deformation occurred concurrently with the stress-induced martensitic transformation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 82-94 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Materials Science & Engineering A: Structural Materials: Properties, Microstructure and Processing |
Volume | 627 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Program, and Aeronautical Sciences and Transformational Tools & Technologies Projects (Technical Discipline Lead Dale Hopkins), the NASA EPSCOR program under Grant NNX11AQ31A , the NASA Kentucky Space Grant Consortium 516171-10-165 and RSF Grant 14-29-00012 . HJM acknowledges financial support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( FOR 1766 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- NiTiHfCu alloys
- Phase transformation
- Shape memory alloys
- Shape memory effect
- TWSME
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science (all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering