Unexpected Constrained Twin Hierarchy in Equiatomic Ru-Based High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy Martensite

Abstract:

Among the different systems for high temperature shape memory alloys (SMA’s), equiatomic RuNb and RuTa alloys demonstrate both shape memory effect (SME) and MT temperatures above 800°C. Equiatomic compounds undergo two successive martensitic transformations, β (B2) → β’ (tetragonal) → β’’ (monoclinic), whereas out of stoechiometry alloys exhibit a single transition from cubic to tetragonal. In the case of two successive martensitic transformations, we expect to have a finer microstructure of the second martensite because it is supposed to develop inside the smallest twin elements of the former one. In equiatomic Ru-based alloys, if the first martensitic transformation is “normal”, the second one gives different unexpected microstructures with, for instance, twins with a thickness which is larger than the smallest spacing between twin variants of the first martensite. In fact, the reason for this unexpected hierarchy of the twins size is that the second martensitic transformation takes place in special conditions: geometrically, elastically and crystallographically constrained.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 738-739)
• Pages: 195-199
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.738-739.195
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Philippe Vermaut, Anna Manzoni, Anne Denquin, Frédéric Prima, Richard Portier
• Keywords: High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys, RuNb, RuTa, Structural Hierarchy, Twins

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