Martensitic Transformation of Titanium-Rich NiTi Prepared by Rapid Solidification

Martensitic Transformation of NiTi and NiTi- TiC Composites

Complexion-mediated martensitic phase transformation in Titanium

The most efficient way to tune microstructures and mechanical properties of metallic alloys lies in designing and using athermal phase transformations. Examples are shape memory alloys and high strength steels, which together stand for 1,500 million tons annual production. In these materials, martensite formation and mechanical twinning are tuned via composition adjustment for realizing complex...

Energy landscape for martensitic phase transformation in shape memory NiTi

First-principles calculations are presented for parent B2 phase and martensitic B19 and B190 phases in NiTi. The results indicate that both B19 and B190 are energetically more stable than the parent B2 phase. By means of ab initio density functional theory, the complete distortion–shuffle energy landscape associated with B2? B19 transformation in NiTi is then determined. In addition to accounti...

Multiband Transport in CoSb3 Prepared by Rapid Solidification†

Nano-grained CoSb3 was prepared by melt-spinning and subsequent spark plasma sintering. The phonon thermal conductivity of skutterudites is known to be sensitive to the kind and the amount of guest atoms. Thus, unfilled CoSb3 can serve as model compound to study the impact of a nanostructure on the thermoelectric properties, especially the phonon thermal conductivity. Therefore, a series of mat...

New Mechanism for the to ! Martensitic Transformation in Pure Titanium

sible supercells of and ! to determine the lattice strain exact energy barrier. The TB-NEB barrier is bounded Martensitic transformations are abundant in nature and are commonly used in engineering technologies [1]. Materials from steel to shape-memory alloys are governed by their underlying martensitic transformations [2]. The pressure driven hcp ! ! hexagonal transformation in pure titanium [...