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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 125, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5049216
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [MINECO MAT2017-84069-P]
- Consolidated Research Group [IT-1090-16]
- ELKARTEK-ACTIMAT project from the Education and Industry Departments of the Basque Government
- University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) [GIU17/071]
- Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences
- DOE [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR 00-76488]
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In situ neutron diffraction is used to study the strain relaxation on a single crystal and other powdered Cu-Al-Ni shape memory alloys (SMAs) around martensitic transformation temperatures. This work is focused on the analysis of the strain evolution along the temperature memory effect appearing in these alloys after partial thermal transformations. A careful study of the influence of partial cycling on the neutron diffraction spectra in the martensitic phase is presented. Two different effects are observed, the d-spacing position shift and the narrowing of various diffraction peaks, along uncompleted transformation cycles during the thermal reverse martensitic transformation. These changes are associated with the relaxation of the mechanical stresses elastically stored around the martensitic variants, due to the different self-accommodating conditions after uncompleted transformations. The evolution of the stresses is measured through the strain relaxation, which is accessible by neutron diffraction. The observed effects and the measured strain relaxations are in agreement with the predictions of the model proposed to explain this behavior in previous calorimetric studies. In addition, the thermal expansion coefficients of both martensite and austenite phases were measured. The neutron experiments have allowed a complete description of the strains during martensitic transformation, and the obtained conclusions can be extrapolated to other SMA systems. (c) 2019 Author(s).
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