Papers by Author: N. Igata

Abstract: Effects of hydrogen doping on the internal friction (IF) of ternary Ti50Ni50-xCux (x=15, 20, 25)
shape memory alloys, prepared by rolling and annealing laminating Ti and Ni-Cu alloy sheets, have been measured with a damping mechanical analyzer in a forced bending oscillation mode at temperatures from 173K to 423K at three frequencies, 0.1, 1 and 5Hz. The effects of hydrogen doping on IF are common to the three alloys: a hydrogen IF peak appears at around 260K; the IF peak value (tanφ) increases rapidly with increasing hydrogen concentration up to tanφ=0.03 at 0.5at% and then decreases; the peak temperature also increases rapidly and then gradually decreases. From the frequency dependence of the peak temperature, the activation energy E and the pre-exponential factor ω0 have been analyzed to be E=0.6-0.7eV and ω0=1013-14s-1. The origin of the hydrogen IF is interpreted to be the Snoek-Koester effect due to interaction of twin boundary dislocations and segregated hydrogen atoms. Effects of hydrogen on mechanical properties of the alloys have also been studied.

Abstract: Based on the recent requirements, high strength, high damping stainless alloy HIDAS was developed. The chemical compositions are Fe-12%Cr-22%Mn and Fe-12%Cr-22%Mn-2%Co. After solution annealing, microstructure consisting of austenite fcc
, martensite hcp  and bcc ’. When cold work was given,  and  increased. Damping capacity increased with the increase of  phase. The mechanism of high damping capacity would come from the hysteretic motion of Shockley partial dislocations which are lying at interphase interface of /
. This alloy has also high strength. This is due to fine structure of /
. Because of these properties, HIDAS can be applied to machinery industries.