TY - JOUR A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Yawny, A. A1 - Pelegrina, J.L. A1 - Dlouhy, A. A1 - Eggeler, G. T1 - On the stress-induced formation of R-phase in ultra-fine-grained Ni-Rich NiTi shape memory alloys JF - Metallurgical and materials transactions A N2 - Phase transformations in binary ultra-fine-grained (UFG) pseudoelastic NiTi wires were studied in a wide temperature range using mechanical loading/unloading experiments, resistance measurements, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal infrared imaging, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The formation of R-phase can be detected in the mechanical experiments. It is shown that the stress-strain response of the R-phase can be isolated from the overall stress-strain data. The R-phase always forms prior to B19¢ when good pseudoelastic properties are observed. The stress-induced B2 to R-phase transition occurs in a homogeneous manner, contrary to the localized character of the B2/R to B19' transformations. The temperature dependence of the critical stress values for the formation of the martensitic phases shows a Clausius Clapeyron type of behavior with constants close to 6 MPa/K (B19') and 18 MPa/K (R-phase). A stress-temperature map is suggested that summarizes the experimentally observed sequences of elementary transformation/deformation processes. KW - Phase transformation KW - Shape memory KW - Pseudoelasticity KW - NiTi KW - R-phase PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-011-0679-y SN - 1073-5623 SN - 1543-1940 VL - 42A IS - 9 SP - 2556 EP - 2574 PB - The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society CY - Warrendale AN - OPUS4-24968 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -