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Acoustic emission screening of thermo-mechanically processed shape memory alloys in tension and compression – The role of irreversible processes in Fe-Ni-Co-Al-Ti-B SMA

Subject Area Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
Term from 2020 to 2024
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 449930948
 
Final Report Year 2025

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In recent decades, shape memory alloys (SMA) have attracted high attention due to their distinctive and outstanding material properties. SMAs such as Ni-Ti, or Co-Ni-Ga represent the most studied SMAs. These materials demonstrate excellent thermoelastic and functional properties, nevertheless they have high costs, which is one of the largest disadvantages for a widespread industrial application. Iron-based SMAs, such as Fe-Ni-Co-Al-X (X = Ta, Ti, Nb) and Fe-Mn-Al-Ni, are more cost-effective than conventional SMAs and they can be produced by process routes adopted from the steel making industry. This opens the way to broad industrial applications and the production of larger quantities of material in the future, such as for actuators or damper technologies for constructions in areas where earthquakes are possible. Many studies have investigated both the orientation dependency as well as the tension-compression asymmetry during quasi-static tests. The main objective of this project was to investigate irreversible processes as well as their influence on the functional degradation of the Febased SMA alloy Fe-Ni-Co-Al-Ti during the martensitic phase transformation using the acoustic emission measurement method.

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