Instability of cyclic superelastic deformation of NiTi investigated by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

P Sedmák, P Šittner, J Pilch, C Curfs - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Motivated by an assumption that the instability of the cyclic tensile superelastic behavior of
NiTi polycrystal is linked to its fatigue performance (number of cycles till failure), the …

Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of grain size dependent cyclic degradation of super-elasticity and shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi …

B Xu, C Yu, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
A non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was established by
incorporating various inelastic deformation mechanisms, ie, martensite transformation …

Thermomechanical cycling of a NiTi shape memory alloy-macroscopic response and microstructural evolution

O Benafan, RD Noebe, SA Padula II, DW Brown… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermomechanical cycling of a Ni 49.9 Ti 50.1 (at.%) shape memory alloy was investigated.
Combined ex situ macroscopic experiments and in situ neutron diffraction measurements …

Experimental study and life prediction on fatigue failure of NiTi shape memory alloy under multi-axial one-way shape memory cyclic loadings

T Zhao, G Kang - International Journal of Fatigue, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the thermo-mechanical coupling fatigue experiments of NiTi shape memory
alloy (SMA) micro-tubes involving one-way shape memory effect (OWSME) are first carried …

In-situ high energy X-ray diffraction study of microscopic deformation behavior of martensite variant reorientation in NiTi wire

X Kong, Y Yang, Z Sun, H Yang, Y Liu, Y Ren… - Applied Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated the collective evolution of martensite variant structures, the
development of crystallographic textures and the load partitioning among the variants during …

The influence of microstructural condition on the phase transformations in Ti-24Nb (at.%)

EM Hildyard, LD Connor, LR Owen, D Rugg, N Martin… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Ti-Nb based alloys exhibit superelastic and shape memory properties over a wide range of
temperatures, making them attractive for industrial applications. However, within the …

Austenite grain refinement during load-biased thermal cycling of a Ni49. 9Ti50. 1 shape memory alloy

ML Bowers, Y Gao, L Yang, DJ Gaydosh, M De Graef… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
A near-equiatomic NiTi shape memory alloy was subjected to a variety of thermomechanical
treatments including pure thermal cycling and load-biased thermal cycling to investigate …

Towards practical actuators

D Dye - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
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Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of the cyclic degradation of shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys

B Xu, C Yu, Q Kan, G Kang - European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
A three-dimensional non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was
proposed to simulate the cyclic deformation of nano-polycrystalline NiTi shape memory …

[HTML][HTML] On the relevance of kinking to reversible hysteresis in MAX phases

NG Jones, C Humphrey, LD Connor, O Wilhelmsson… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper examines the idea that reversible hysteresis in MAX phases is caused by the
formation, growth and collapse of unstable, or incipient, kink bands. In situ X-ray diffraction of …