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Influence of Addition of Nb on Phase Transformation, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Equiatomic NiTi SMA

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Three novel NiTiNb shape memory alloys, which possess a nominal chemical composition of Ni50−x/2-Ti50−x/2-Nb x (at.%) where x stands for 2, 4 and 6, respectively, were designed in order to investigate the influence of the addition of Nb on phase transformation, microstructure and mechanical properties of equiatomic NiTi shape memory alloy. All the three NiTiNb shape memory alloys contain B2 austenite phase, B19′ martensite phase and β-Nb precipitate phase. Martensite type II twin can be observed in the case of Ni49Ti49Nb2 alloy. In the case of Ni48Ti48Nb4 alloy, there exists a boundary between Ti2Ni precipitate phase and β-Nb precipitate phase. As for Ni47Ti47Nb6 alloy, it can be observed that there exists an orientation relationship of \( [01\bar{1}]_{{\upbeta{\text{ - Nb}}}} //[01\bar{1}]_{\text{B2}} \) between β-Nb precipitate phase and B2 austenite matrix. The increase in Nb content contributes to enhancing the yield stress of NiTiNb shape memory alloy, but it leads to the decrease in compression fracture stress. The addition of Nb to equiatomic NiTi shape memory alloy does not have a significant influence on the transformation hysteresis of the alloy, which is attributed to the fact that NiTiNb shape memory alloy is not subjected to plastic deformation and hence β-Nb precipitate phase is unable to relax the elastic strain in the martensite interface.

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The work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51305091, 51305092 and 51475101).

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    Shuyong Jiang, Yanqiu Zhang & Yanan Zhao

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Jiang, S., Liang, Y., Zhang, Y. et al. Influence of Addition of Nb on Phase Transformation, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Equiatomic NiTi SMA. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 25, 4341–4351 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-016-2281-3

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