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The reversible shape memory effect is understood as the capacity of specimens deformed in a martensitic state to change shape (dimensions) both in heating in the process of a reverse transformation and in subsequent cooling as a result of a forward transformation. This is clearly manifested in manganese-rich Mn -Cu alloys susceptible to a diffusionless anti ferromagnetic (“martensitic”) transformation, as a result of which the crystal structure changes from face-centered cubic to face-centered tetragonal (f.c.c. → f.c.t.).
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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 9, pp. 34–37, September, 1996.
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Vintaikin, E.Z., Nosova, G.I. Reversible shape memory effect in alloys of the Mn - Cu system. Met Sci Heat Treat 38, 404–407 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01395648
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