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High Recovery Stress Performance of NiTi Shape Memory Alloy with a Wide Temperature Window

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The prestressing applications of shape memory alloys (SMAs) employs the recovery stress of a constrained SMA element that originates from its attempt to revert a pre-deformation to original shape upon heating. As the most readily available SMAs, NiTi alloys have shown poor performance of recovery stress compared to NiTiNb and FeMnSiCrNi due to their relatively small transformation hysteresis. This work investigated the effects of heat treatment and prestraining on the martensitic phase transformation characteristics and mechanical properties. It is found that suitably selected heat treatment and prestraining treatment can effectively tune the transformation hysteresis to greater than 100 °C while retaining reasonably high strength, which greatly elevate the recovery stress of NiTi–SMAs. A large recovery stresses of approximately 300 MPa with a wide temperature window of 180 °C of stable performance can be achieved via a simple one-step heat treatment and prestraining treatment using commercial superelastic NiTi wire products.

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Zhigang Wu would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Hundred Talents Program of Guangzhou University (Grant No.: RQ2021016). The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No.: 2018A030313742 and 2020A1515011064) and the Guangzhou University Postgraduate Innovation Ability Training Funding Program (Grant No.: 2019GDJC-M43 and 2020GDJC-M43) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 52178278).

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Yang, C., Liu, T., Zhong, M. et al. High Recovery Stress Performance of NiTi Shape Memory Alloy with a Wide Temperature Window. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 32, 10956–10968 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-023-07886-6

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