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A material family to replace the current superalloys in aeronautical gas turbine engines is
considered to be that of gamma Titanium Aluminide (γ-TiAl) alloys. Structural components in
aeronautical gas turbine engines typically experience large variations in temperatures and multiaxial
states of stress under non-isothermal conditions. The uniaxial, torsional and bi-axial thermomechanical
fatigue (TMF) behaviour of this γ-TiAl alloy have been examined at 400 800°C with
strain amplitudes from 0.15% to 0.7%. The tests were conducted at both in-phase (IP) and out-ofphase
(OP). The effects of TMF on the microstructure were also investigated. For the same
equivalent mechanical strain amplitude uniaxial IP tests showed significantly longer lifetimes than
pure torsional TMF tests. The non-proportional multiaxial OP test showed the lowest lifetimes at
the same equivalent mechanical strain amplitude compared to the other types of tests.
Martensitic phase transformations were studied in ultrafine grained Ni-rich pseudoelastic NiTi wires during cyclic deformation under small imposed strain amplitudes. Small strain variation tests were complemented by a thermographic analysis of the emerging temperature distributions in the specimens. The characteristics of the observed thermal profiles result from the specific phase transitions which take place at different stress levels. Homogeneous temperature changes, corresponding to a non-localized transformation activity along the specimen length, were observed throughout the whole range of applied stresses, starting from values as low as 100 MPa. This behavior is in line with previous literature reports for the stress-induced transformation from B2 austenite to R-phase as long as the critical stress for B19' martensite formation is not reached. In the present study, similar type of transformation activity could also be demonstrated at higher strains/stresses, even after the stress induced transformation to B19' was apparently completed. These findings suggest that transformation activity involving the B2 phase is present throughout the whole pseudoelastic stressstrain cycle; i.e., it is not restricted to the initial loading portion. Finally, non-localized transformation to or from B19' was identified during small amplitude strain variations in the plateau-like coexistence ranges of the pseudoelastic cycle.
Temperature-induced, stress-induced martensitic phase transitions and martensite reorientation process in Ni rich (50.9 at.%) NiTi pseudoelastic NiTi wires with ultra-fine grained (UFG) microstructure were studied by electrical resistance measurements. Measurements of the electrical resistance as a function of temperature at different constant mechanical loads accompanied by complementary experiments with variable loads at constant temperature were performed. Results show that the transformation mechanisms in UFG microstructures exhibit a higher level of complexity when compared with those characterizing the behavior of other microstructures (e.g., recrystallized or larger grains size). It was found that a threshold stress level below 150 MPa delimits the transition from a homogeneous (low stress) to localized but reversible Lüders type transformation (high stress) when the transformations are induced under constant applied stress and that reorientation processes require stresses of 100 MPa in the present UFG wires. Even though the strain evolutions do not always show two distinct yielding events during cooling or heating, electrical resistance measurements proved that a two-step transformation involving R-phase and B19' martensite was always present in the extended range of temperatures and stresses investigated here.