Magneto-Mechanical Damping and Phase Transformations in Iron-Based Alloys

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Internal friction and Young’s modulus were measured for pure iron and a high carbon steel. Temperature dependent measurements in pure iron show a strain dependent component to internal friction below the Curie temperature. It can be attributed to the magneto-mechanical damping as confirmed by amplitude dependent measurements at room temperature with and without magnetic field. The bcc to fcc phase transition on further heating is clearly marked by internal friction peaks in both iron and steel. The effects of cementite dissolution and precipitation in steel are visible on thermal cycling at even higher temperatures.

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Materials Science Forum (Volume 1197)

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39-45

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July 2026

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The publication of this article was funded by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne 10.13039/501100001703

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