Hydrogen Mobility in the Non-Martensitically Transforming Shape Memory Alloy Ni₅₂Ti₄₈

Abstract:

Hydrogen mobility has been studied at high temperature by absorption experiments in the Ni₅₂Ti₄₈ alloy, which does not transform martensitically but rather behaves like a so-called strain glass. The results obtained have been compared with those deduced from an anelastic relaxation occurring in this alloy below the strain-glass transition temperatures. An accurate analysis of the anelastic data has confirmed the conclusion that the relaxation is related to H rather than to the glass transition. Its relaxation time obeyed a Voogel-Fulcher type of temperature dependence. Combining absorption and anelastic results, the H diffusion coefficient in the B2 lattice structure of this alloy could be studied from 1200 K down to 170 K. The agreement between the absorption and mechanical spectroscopy data was satisfactory. The activation energy (0.33 eV) deduced from a Vogel-Fulcher representation of the H diffusion coefficient D was sensibly lower than earlier determinations (0.44-0.50 eV) from Arrhenius plots. The high temperature data of Ni₅₂Ti₄₈ alloy, compared with the ones available in the literature for other NiTi SMA in their B2 structure, show a substantial independence of D on the alloy composition.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volumes 326-328)
• Pages: 731-738
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.326-328.731
• Online since: April 2012
• Authors: Giovanni Mazzolai
• Keywords: Anelastic Relaxation, Glass Transitions, Hydrogen Diffusion, NiTi Shape Memory Alloys

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