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Novel High-Speed High Pressure Torsion Technology for Obtaining Fe-Mn-Si-Cr Shape Memory Alloy Active Elements

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This paper introduces an adapted high-speed high pressure torsion (HS-HPT) method of severe plastic deformation applied for obtaining shape memory alloy (SMA) active elements with revolution symmetry, able to develop axial displacement/force. Billets with circular crown forms were cut from Fe-28Mn-6Si-5Cr (mass%) SMA ingots and, by means of HS-HPT technology, were directly turned into modules, with truncated cone shell configurations. This process was performed, during time intervals of seconds, under the effect of high pressure (up to 1 GPa) cumulated with high rotation speed (hundreds of rotations per minute) applied on the active surfaces of sintered-carbide anvils, specially designed for this purpose. Due to pressure and friction, generated by rotation, the entire sample volume is heated and simultaneously deformed to final shape. During the process, microstructure fragmentation occurred enabling to obtain (ultra)fine grains and nanocrystalline areas, in spite of the heat developed by friction, which was removed by conduction at the contact surface between sample and anvils, before the occurrence of any recrystallization phenomena. When compressed between flat surfaces, the truncated cone modules developed a superelastic-like response, unique among Fe-Mn-Si base SMAs and, when heated in compressed state, they were able to develop either axial strokes or recovery forces by either free or constrained recovery shape memory effect (SME), respectively. By means of optical (OM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) marked structural changes caused by HT-HPT were revealed, along with fine and ultrafine crystalline grains. The presence of stress-induced ε-hexagonal close-packed (hcp) martensite, together with nanocrystalline areas were confirmed by x-ray diffraction.

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This research work was supported by the Project PN.II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-0174, Contract 144/2012.

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  1. Faculty of Metallurgy, Materials Science and Environment, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Str. Domnească 111, 800201, Galaţi, Romania

    Gheorghe Gurău, Carmela Gurău, Octavian Potecaşu & Petrică Alexandru

  2. Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Bd. D. Mangeron 61A, 700050, Iasi, Romania

    Leandru-Gheorghe Bujoreanu

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This article is an invited paper selected from presentations at the International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies 2013, held May 20-24, 2013, in Prague, Czech Republic, and has been expanded from the original presentation.

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Gurău, G., Gurău, C., Potecaşu, O. et al. Novel High-Speed High Pressure Torsion Technology for Obtaining Fe-Mn-Si-Cr Shape Memory Alloy Active Elements. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 23, 2396–2402 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-014-1060-2

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