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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4989523
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- NASA [NNX08AB51A, NNX11AI57A]
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences (DOE)
- DOE [DE-AC52-06NA25396]
- Division of Scientific User Facilities, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- UT-Battelle, LLC [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
- NASA [103433, NNX08AB51A] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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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. Published by AIP Publishing.
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