In this paper, a new technology for a novel material inherent load sensor for sheet metal components of metastable austenitic steel is presented. The new technology is based on load induced martensite formation and is investigated in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 653. The sensors are small areas in the sheet metal material, which have been plastically deformed by means of stamping. Du...

Influence of disorder, antisite defects, martensite transition and compositional variation on the magnetic properties and electronic structure of Mn(2)NiGa and Mn(1+x)Ni(2-x)Ga magnetic shape memory alloys have been studied by using full potential spin-polarized scalar relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostocker (FP-SPRKKR) method. Mn(2)NiGa is ferrimagnetic and its total spin moment increases when di...

Susceptibility of three lean-alloyed ferritic-austenitic stainless steels to hydrogen-induced delayed cracking was examined, concentrating on internal hydrogen contained in the materials after production operations. The aim was to study the role of strain-induced austenite to martensite transformation in the delayed cracking susceptibility. According to the conducted deep drawing tests and cons...

Morrison, Keith R. M.S.M.S.E., Purdue University, August 2014. Nickel Aluminum Shape Memory Alloys via Molecular Dynamics. Major Professor: Alejandro Strachan. Shape memory materials are an important class of active materials with a wide range of applications in the aerospace, biomedical, and automobile industries. These materials exhibit the two unique properties of shape memory and superelast...

In order to gain a better understanding of the formation of plessite in iron meteorites, various electron optical techniques were employed to study the range of plessite structures observed in the Carlton fine octahedrite. Compositional and structural studies of twins in clear taenite and the cloudy zone were made. Transmission electron microscopy studies of martensitic and duplex a + y plessit...

The damping characteristics of Ti50Ni50-xCux (x = 0~30 at.%) shape memory alloys (SMAs) at a low frequency have been studied using a dynamic mechanical analyzer. The magnitude of the tan δ value and the values of the storage modulus (E₀) softening/hardening and the strain variation exhibited in B2↔B19 transformation are all higher than those in B2↔B19' transformation. The larger E₀ softening/ha...

austenite is a semi-stable phase in most stainless steels that deforms to martensite under md30 and forms martensitetype ά and ε due to the deformation in the steels. since the distribution of strain induced martensite plays animportant role in achieving desired properties, the main objective of the present work is to model martensitedistribution of ά during cold rolling using finite element me...

Metastable austenitic CrNi steels undergo phase transformation when loaded or deformed plastically. In the current work a macroscopic and phenomenological constitutive model is presented to strain induced of austenite martensite. The approach based on previous works Olsen Cohen [1] & Stringfellow et al. [2]. kinetics modelled assumption that intersections shear bands in phase, act as potential ...

In this study the α′′ stress-induced martensitic transformation and damping behaviour of the superelastic β-Ti–25Ta–25Nb alloy are investigated by tensile tests at room temperature and by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) in tensile mode for different applied stresses. Tensile tests show a fully non-linear elastic domain and, consequently, a specific method is proposed to determine the elastic ...

The quantitative characterization of the microstructure evolution in high-Mn steel during deformation is of great importance to understanding its strain-hardening behavior. In the current study, in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction was employed to characterize the microstructure evolution in a Fe-17Mn-1.5Al-0.3C steel during a tensile test. The microstructure at different engineeri...