TY - JOUR A1 - Schaefer, A. A1 - Wagner, M.F.-X. A1 - Pelegrina, J.L. A1 - Olbricht, Jürgen A1 - Eggeler, G. T1 - Localization events and microstructural evolution in ultra-fine grained NiTi shape memory alloys during thermo-mechanical loading N2 - Subjecting a thin NiTi specimen to uniaxial tension often leads to a localized martensitic transformation: macroscopic transformation bands form and propagate through the specimen, separating it into regions of fully transformed martensite and original austenite. In the present study, the alternating current potential drop (ACPD) technique is used to analyze the change in electrical resistance of ultra-fine grained NiTi wires subjected to a broad range of thermo-mechanical load cases: (i) uniaxial tensile straining at constant temperatures (pseudoelastic deformation); (ii) cooling and heating through the transformation range at constant load (actuator load case); (iii) a combination of mechanical and thermal loading. We monitor the ACPD signals in several zones along the gauge length of specimens, and we demonstrate that a localized type of transformation is a generic feature of pseudoelastic as well as of shape memory deformation. Moreover, the ACPD signals allow to differentiate between temperature-induced martensite (formed during cooling at no or relatively small loads), stress-induced martensite, and reoriented martensite (formed under load at low temperatures). PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201000063 SN - 1438-1656 VL - 12 IS - 6 SP - 453 EP - 459 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-28616 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brookes, Stephen-Peter A1 - Kühn, Hans-Joachim A1 - Skrotzki, Birgit A1 - Klingelhöffer, Hellmuth A1 - Sievert, Rainer A1 - Pfetzing, J. A1 - Peter, D. A1 - Eggeler, G. T1 - Axial-torsional thermomechanical fatigue of a near-gamma TiAl-alloy N2 - The uniaxial, torsional and axial-torsional thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) behavior of the near-γ TiAl-alloy TNB-V5 was investigated. TMF tests were performed at 400-800 °C with mechanical strain amplitudes ranging from 0.15% to 0.7%. The tests were conducted thermomechanically in-phase (IP) and out-of-phase (OP). For the same lifetimes, uniaxial IP tests required the highest strain amplitudes, while OP test conditions were most damaging and needed the lowest strain amplitudes. The Mises equivalent mechanical strain amplitudes of pure torsional tests were found in between uniaxial in-phase and out-of-phase tests for the same lifetimes. The non-proportional multiaxial out-of-phase test showed a lower lifetime at the same equivalent mechanical strain amplitude compared to the other types of tests. The microstructure has been characterized applying electron microscopy and microstructural parameters such as fraction of twinned grains, grain size, lamellar distance and dislocation density have been quantified. KW - Gamma titanium aluminide KW - TNB-V5 KW - Thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) KW - Axial-torsional loading KW - Microstructure PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2010.03.073 SN - 0921-5093 SN - 1873-4936 VL - 527 IS - 16-17 SP - 3829 EP - 3839 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-21289 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -