Size effects in the superelastic response of Ni 54Fe 19Ga 27 shape memory alloy pillars with a two stage martensitic transformation

N. Ozdemir, I. Karaman, N. A. Mara, Y. I. Chumlyakov, H. E. Karaca

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Abstract

The superelastic behavior of Ni 54Fe 19Ga 27 shape memory alloy (SMA) single crystalline pillars was studied under compression as a function of pillar diameter. Multiple pillars with diameters between 10 μm and 200 nm were cut on a single crystalline bulk sample oriented along the [1 1 0] direction as the compression axis and that had undergone fully reversible two stage martensitic transformation, i.e. L2 1 austenite to 10M/14M modulated martensite and then to L1 o martensite. The results revealed an increase in the critical stress for stress-induced martensitic transformation and the yield strength of martensite with decreasing pillar size. The stress hysteresis also increased with the reduction in pillar size and the superelastic response started to diminish below 500 nm pillar diameter. Two-stage martensitic transformation was suppressed for pillar sizes of 1 μm and below, which were shown to exhibit a direct austenite to L1 o transformation. Such a change in the transformation pathway, i.e. from a two stage to one stage transformation, was also observed in bulk single crystals with increasing temperature. We demonstrated the absence of two stage transformation in bulk at high temperatures. This finding suggests that decreasing the sample size and increasing the temperature have similar effects on the superelastic response of NiFeGa SMAs that had undergone two-stage transformation and indicates that a reduction in pillar diameter decreases the transformation temperature due to the difficulty of martensite nucleation on small scales. The damping coefficients of the pillars were also calculated and the results highlighted that damping capacities higher than those of bulk metallic alloys can be achieved using submicron sized pillars.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5670-5685
Number of pages16
JournalActa Materialia
Volume60
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2012

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) Program, Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Grant No. 0709283), the NSF International Materials Institutes Program, Division of Materials Research (Grant No. 0844082), and the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Grant No. RUE1-2940-TO-09). The work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences user facility. Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action equal opportunity employer, is operated by Los Alamos National Security LLC for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.

Funding

This work was supported by the NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) Program, Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (Grant No. 0709283), the NSF International Materials Institutes Program, Division of Materials Research (Grant No. 0844082), and the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Grant No. RUE1-2940-TO-09). The work was performed, in part, at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences user facility. Los Alamos National Laboratory, an affirmative action equal opportunity employer, is operated by Los Alamos National Security LLC for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.

FundersFunder number
US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
US Department of EnergyDE-AC52-06NA25396
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Division of Materials Research0844082
Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation0709283
National Nuclear Security Administration
Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Keywords

    • Martensitic transformation
    • Micropillars
    • Plastic deformation
    • Shape memory alloys
    • Size effects

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
    • Ceramics and Composites
    • Polymers and Plastics
    • Metals and Alloys

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