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NiTi-Enabled Composite Design for Exceptional Performances

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In an effort to further develop shape memory alloys (SMAs) for functional applications, much focus has been given in recent years to design and create innovative forms of SMAs, such as functionally graded SMAs, architecture SMAs, and SMA-based metallic composites. This paper reports on the progress in creating NiTi-based composites of exceptional properties stimulated by the recent discovery of the principle of lattice strain matching between the SMA matrix and superelastic nanoinclusions embedded in the matrix. Based on this principle, different SMA–metal composites have been designed to achieve extraordinary shape memory performances, such as complete pseudoelastic behavior at as low as 77 K and stress plateau as high as 1600 MPa, and exceptional mechanical properties, such as tensile strength as high as 2000 MPa and Young’s modulus as low as 28 GPa. Details are given for a NiTi–W micro-fiber composite prepared by melt infiltration, hot pressing, forging, and cold rolling. The composite contained 63% in volume of W micro-fibers of ~0.6 μm thickness. In situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction revealed that the NiTi matrix underwent martensite transformation during tensile deformation while the W micro-fiber deformed elastically with a maximum strain of 0.83% in the loading direction, implying a W fiber stress of 3280 MPa. The composite showed a maximum high tensile strength of 2300 MPa.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in Grant #51231008 (key program project scheme) and Grant #11474362, the Australian Research Council in Grant DP160105066. The use of the Advanced Photon Source was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, and Office of Basic Energy Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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    Yang Shao, Fangmin Guo, Daqiang Jiang, Shijie Hao & Lishan Cui

  2. School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia

    Junsong Zhang & Hong Yang

  3. X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

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Shao, Y., Guo, F., Ren, Y. et al. NiTi-Enabled Composite Design for Exceptional Performances. Shap. Mem. Superelasticity 3, 67–81 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40830-017-0101-8

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