Texture Evolution During Isothermal, Isostrain, And Isobaric Loading Of Polycrystalline Shape Memory Niti

Abstract

In situ neutron diffraction was used to provide insights into martensite variant microstructures during isothermal, isobaric, and isostrain loading in shape memory NiTi. The results show that variant microstructures were equivalent for the corresponding strain, and more importantly, the reversibility and equivalency were immediately evident in variant microstructures that were first formed isobarically but then reoriented to near random self-accommodated microstructures following isothermal deformation. Variant microstructures formed isothermally were not significantly affected by a subsequent thermal cycle under constant strain. In all loading cases considered, the resulting variant microstructure correlated with strain and did not correlate with stress. Based on the ability to select a variant microstructure for a given strain despite thermomechanical loading history, the results demonstrated here can be obtained by following any sequence of thermomechanical loading paths over multiple cycles. Thus, for training shape memory alloys (repeating thermomechanical cycling to obtain the desired variant microstructure), optimal paths can be selected so as to minimize the number of training cycles required, thereby increasing the overall stability and fatigue life of these alloys in actuator or medical applications.

Publication Date

6-19-2017

Publication Title

Applied Physics Letters

Volume

110

Issue

25

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4989523

Socpus ID

85021269911 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85021269911

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