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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 112, October 2003
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| Page(s) | 511 - 514 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:2003936 | |
J. Phys. IV France 112 (2003) 511
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:2003936
Effect of grain size and texture on superelasticity of Cu-AI-Mn-based shape memory alloys
Y. Sutou, T. Omori, J.J. Wang, R. Kainuma and K. IshidaDepartment of Materiafs Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba-yama 02, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
Abstract
The effect of texture and
grain size on the superelasticity (SE) in Cu-AI-Mn-based alloys was investigated by tensile testing. The SE strain increases
with increasing relative grain size
d/t (
d: grain size and
t: specimen thickness), which is explained as being due to a relaxation of the grain constraint in the polycrystalline specimens.
On the other hand, Cu-AI-Mn-Ni alloy recrystallized after heavy cold-rolling in the fcc (
) + bcc (
) two-phase region showed a {112}
<110
> strong recrystallization texture. The SE strain depends on the testing direction on the textured sheet specimens, and the
largest value of SE strain was obtained in the specimen tested along the direction of 45° from the rolling direction (RD).
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