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Recent experimental results related to the cubic-to-orthorhombic phase transformation in the family of Ti50Ni50 − x Pd x shape memory alloys show that the remarkable reduction of the hysteresis when the Pd content approaches 11% is accompanied by a noticeable change in the microstructure present in the martensitic phase; in particular, of the types of twins and of their arrangement. As a preliminary step towards modelling such a behavior, I consider the simplest model of Landau-type for this transformation and in a specific but not too special case compare the theoretical results with the experimental findings.
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Pitteri, M. (2010). Microstructures in the Ti50Ni50 − x Pd x Alloys’ Cubic-to-Orthorhombic Phase Transformation: A Proposed Energy Landscape. In: Albers, B. (eds) Continuous Media with Microstructure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11445-8_24
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