Iron-based superelastic alloys with near-constant critical stress temperature dependence
Iron-based superelastic alloys with near-constant critical stress temperature dependence
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DOI:
10.1126/science.abc1590
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发表时间:
2020-08
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56.9
通讯作者:
J. Xia;Y. Noguchi;Xiao Xu;Takumi Odaira;Y. Kimura;M. Nagasako;T. Omori;R. Kainuma
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作者:
J. Xia;Y. Noguchi;Xiao Xu;Takumi Odaira;Y. Kimura;M. Nagasako;T. Omori;R. Kainuma
Temperature-stable superelasticity Shape memory alloys are superelastic, which means that they can recover their original shape after a large amount of strain. However, in most alloys, this behavior tends to only work well for a small range of temperatures. Xia et al. identified an iron-manganese-aluminum-chromium-nickel alloy for which superelasticity is virtually temperature independent (see the Perspective by La Roca and Sade). This distinctive property is attractive for a variety of applications in which large temperature variations are normal, such as in space exploration. Science, this issue p. 855; see also p. 773 Chromium controls the temperature dependence of the critical stress in an Fe-Mn-Al-Cr-Ni shape memory alloy. Shape memory alloys recover their original shape after deformation, making them useful for a variety of specialized applications. Superelastic behavior begins at the critical stress, which tends to increase with increasing temperature for metal shape memory alloys. Temperature dependence is a common feature that often restricts the use of metal shape memory alloys in applications. We discovered an iron-based superelastic alloy system in which the critical stress can be optimized. Our Fe-Mn-Al-Cr-Ni alloys have a controllable temperature dependence that goes from positive to negative, depending on the chromium content. This phenomenon includes a temperature-invariant stress dependence. This behavior is highly desirable for a range of outer space–based and other applications that involve large temperature fluctuations.