The influence of temperature on the evolution of functional properties during pseudoelastic cycling of ultra fine grained NiTi
✍ Scribed by J. Olbricht; A. Yawny; A.M. Condó; F.C. Lovey; G. Eggeler
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 160 KB
- Volume
- 481-482
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-5093
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✦ Synopsis
In the present study we used uniaxial pull-pull fatigue loading to study the pseudoelastic properties of ultra fine grained (grain size: 50-100 nm) NiTi wires. The pseudoelastic behavior of shape memory alloys is not an ideal process. We show how pull-pull cycling changes the pseudoelastic properties, resulting in a decrease of plateau stresses (characterizing the forward and reverse transformation) and an accumulation of irreversible strain (indicating the increase of dislocation density in the material and/or the increase of the volume fraction of stabilized martensite). Moreover, pseudoelasticity is only observed within a limited temperature window. In our case, optimum initial pseudoelasticity was obtained in a region of 10-80 • C. While all this is well appreciated, the fact that the evolution of the pseudoelastic behavior shows a strong temperature dependence even within this 'pseudoelastic window' has received much less attention. After 120 pseudoelastic cycles at temperatures between 28 • C and 80 • C, our material showed variations of the vertical width of stress-strain hysteresis and accumulated irreversible strain by factors of two and four, respectively.
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