Phase transition and mechanical damping properties: A DMTA study of NiTiCu shape memory alloys

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adelaide Nespoli ◽  
Francesca Passaretti ◽  
Elena Villa
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose San Juan ◽  
Maria L. Nó ◽  
Christopher A. Schuh

2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 660-666
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Zhi Ming Hao ◽  
Ping An Shi ◽  
Shao Rong Yu ◽  
Wei Fen Li

A three-phase constitutive model for TiNiNb shape memory alloys (SMAs) is proposed based on the fact that TiNiNb SMAs are dynamically composed of austenite, martensite and -Nb phases. In the considered ranges of stress and temperature, the behaviors of austenite, martensite and -Nb phases are assumed to be elastoplastic, and the behavior of an SMA is regarded as the dynamic combination of the individual behavior of each phase. Then a macroscopic constitutive description for TiNiNb SMAs is obtained by the conventional theory of plasticity, the theory of mixture, the theory of inclusion, and the description of phase transition by Tanaka. The method for determination of the material parameters is given. This constitutive model can describe the main characteristics of SMAs, such as ferrcelasticity, pseudoelasticity and shape memory effect.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1010 ◽  
pp. 34-39
Author(s):  
Ying Ci Wee ◽  
Hamidreza Ghandvar ◽  
Tuty Asma Abu Bakar ◽  
Esah Hamzah

Copper-based shape memory alloys (SMAs) gaining attention due to their high damping properties during martensitic transformation and effective in energy dissipation which is applicable to damping application. However, copper-based SMAs such as the ternary Cu-Al-Ni are not easily deformed in the lower temperature martensitic phase which can be attributed to brittleness induced by coarse grain size, high degree of order and elastic anisotropy. Hence, this study aims to improve the properties of Cu-Al-Ni SMAs by addition of fourth alloying element. In this research, Cu-Al-Ni alloys with the addition of the fourth additional element, cobalt were prepared by casting. Microstructure characteristics of Cu-Al-Ni SMAs with and without Co addition were investigated via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). Damping capacity was determined by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). It was found that the alloy with 0.7wt% of Co addition showed the best improvement on the damping properties.


MRS Bulletin ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 822-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turab Lookman ◽  
Peter Littlewood

AbstractThe physical properties that make “functional” materials worthy of their moniker frequently arise because of a phase transition that establishes a new kind of order as the material is cooled from a parent state. Such ordered states include ferroelectrics, ferromagnets, and structurally ordered martensites; because these states all break an orientational symmetry, and it is rare that one can produce the conditions for single domain crystallinity, the observed configuration is generally heterogeneous. However, the conditions under which domain structures form are highly constrained, especially by elastic interactions within a solid; consequently, the observed structures are far from fully random, even if disorder is present. Often the structure of the heterogeneity is important to the function, as in shape-memory alloys. Increasingly, we are surprised to discover new phases inside solids that are themselves a heterogeneous modulation of their parents.


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