Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5456774 | Materials Science and Engineering: A | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Real-time in-situ neutron diffraction was conducted during uniaxial cycling compression of a Ni49.3Fe18Ga27Co5.7 shape memory alloy to explore the mechanism on its superelasticity at room temperature, which was manifested by the almost recoverable large strains and the apparent cyclic softening. Based on the Rietveld refinements, the real-time evolution of volume fraction of martensite was in-situ monitored, indicating the incremental amount of residual martensite with increasing load cycles. Real-time changes in intensities and lattice strains of {hkl} reflections for individual phase were obtained through fitting individual peaks, which reveal the quantitative information on phase transformation kinetics as a function of grain orientation and stress/strain partitioning. Moreover, a large compressive residual stress was evidenced in the parent phase, which should be balanced by the residual martensite after the second unloading cycle. The large compressive residual stress found in the parent austenite phase may account for the cyclic effect on critical stress required for triggering the martensitic transformation in the subsequent loading.
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Authors
H. Yang, D. Yu, Y. Chen, J. Mu, Y.D. Wang, K. An,