Applications of the directional solidification in magnetic shape memory alloys Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • A zone melting liquid metal cooling (ZMLMC) method of directional solidification was applied to prepare highly-oriented Ni52Fe17Ga27Co4 magnetic shape memory alloys. At high temperature gradient and low growth velocity, the well-developed preferred orientation for coarse columnar crystals was obtained. Such a structure leads to a large complete pseudoelastic recovery of 5% at 348 K. Moreover, the pseudoelastic behaviours and the kinetics of the martensitic transformation (MT) are significantly affected by the intersection angle between the loading direction and the grain boundaries.

published proceedings

  • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering

author list (cited authors)

  • Huang, Y. J., Liu, J., Hu, Q. D., Liu, Q. H., Karaman, I., & Li, J. G.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Huang, YJ||Liu, J||Hu, QD||Liu, QH||Karaman, I||Li, JG

publication date

  • March 2016