纳米单晶NiTi合金单程形状记忆效应的分子动力学模拟

采用基于第二近邻修正型嵌入原子势的分子动力学方法研究了纳米单晶NiTi合金的单程形状记忆效应,详细阐明了温度诱发马氏体相变和应力诱发马氏体重定向过程中纳米单晶的变形行为和微结构演化,进一步分析了加/卸载速率对NiTi合金单程形状记忆效应的影响。结果表明,NiTi纳米单晶在应力加载过程中发生马氏体重定向,卸载后存在残余应变;当加热到奥氏体转变结束温度以上时,马氏体逆相变为奥氏体相,残余应变逐渐减小,但未完全回复;随着应力加载速率的增加,重定向临界应力和模量逐渐增加;再次降温过程中不同加载速率下的原子结构演化各不相同。     

NiTi形状记忆合金动态压缩力学行为的实验研究

采用材料试验机和SHPB实验技术,对在不同初始温度(298～873K)和应变率(5×10-4、～2.3×103s-1)下的NiTi形状记忆合金的压缩力学行为进行了实验研究。结果表明:马氏体状态下的NiTi合金的力学行为对应变率的变化敏感,位错屈服段的硬化模量、相屈服段的硬化模量及马氏体重取向前的弹性模量对应变率的变化不敏感,而位错塑性变形前的弹性模量随应变率的提高迅速增大;奥氏体状态下的NiTi合金随着实验温度升高,无论是应力诱发马氏体相变应力还是奥氏体相屈服应力都逐渐下降,材料表现出温度软化效应。从超弹性温度范围内的卸载曲线中观察到了应力诱发马氏体到奥氏体的逆转变。     

应力作用下NiTi形状记忆合金微结构演化的相场模拟及其本征应变率敏感性

基于Ginzburg-Landau动力学控制方程建立了NiTi形状记忆合金非等温相场模型,实现了对NiTi合金内应力诱导马氏体相变的数值模拟。同时将晶界能密度引入系统局部自由能密度,从而考虑多晶系统中晶界的重要作用。数值计算了单晶和多晶NiTi形状记忆合金在单轴机械载荷作用下微结构的动态演化过程和宏观力学行为,并重点研究了晶粒尺寸为60 nm的NiTi纳米多晶在低应变率下（0.000 5～15 s-1）力学行为的本征应变率敏感性。研究结果表明,单晶NiTi合金系统高温拉伸-卸载过程中马氏体相变均匀发生,未形成奥氏体-马氏体界面。而纳米多晶系统在加载阶段出现了马氏体带的形成-扩展现象,在卸载阶段出现了马氏体带的收缩-消失现象。相同外载作用过程中,NiTi单晶系统的宏观应力-应变曲线具有更大的滞回环面积,拥有更优的超弹性变形能力。计算结果显示,在中低应变率下纳米晶NiTi形状记忆合金应力-应变关系表现出较明显的应变率相关性,应变率升高导致材料相变应力提升。这一应变率相关性主要源于相场模型中外加载荷速率与马氏体空间演化速度的相互竞争关系。     

具有层状微观结构的NiTi单晶本构模型

建立了应力诱发的具有层状微观结构的NiTi单晶本构模型. 模型考虑母相和马氏体相弹性各向异性性质的差异, 以NiTi单晶相变过程中可能出现的24个马氏体变体为基础, 利用相变驱动力和理想界面的连续条件推导了马氏体相变的发生及发展过程, 以及单晶相变过程中宏微观应力应变的演化, 数值模拟了在不同加载方向材料的应力应变响应.结果表明, 对于不同的加载方向, NiTi单晶既存在强化也存在软化现象.      

NiTi合金伪弹性退化规律及尺度效应的试验研究

以NiTi合金在结构振动控制中的应用为背景,试验研究了加卸载循环次数和直径尺度对NiTi合金丝伪弹性特征的影响规律。研究结果表明,NiTi合金丝的残余应变随循环次数的增加呈指数关系增加,而其马氏体相变开始应力、奥氏体弹性模量、相变应变和等效阻尼比随循环次数的增加呈指数关系降低;随着直径尺度增加,循环加卸载后,NiTi合金丝的伪弹性退化程度显著增加。此外,残余应变与残余内应力、奥氏体弹性模量以及相变应变之间的线性关系揭示了NiTi合金伪弹性退化的内在机理。     

应变幅值对循环载荷下NiTi合金力学性质的影响

实验研究了应变幅值对循环载荷下NiTi合金伪弹性退化特征的影响规律,结果表明:当卸载发生在NiTi合金应力诱发马氏体相变阶段时,应变幅值对马氏体相变开始应力的退化规律影响较小,但此时应变幅值的增加会显著增大奥氏体弹性模量的退化程度,而其大变形可回复能力和阻尼特性在应变幅值大于6%时才有大幅度降低。对各参数退化程度进行定量分析,得到了NiTi合金具有较强可回复能力和阻尼性能的应变幅值范围。该研究可为NiTi合金阻尼器的设计提供参考。     

NiTi合金力学和阻尼性质研究及伪弹性退化分析

试验考察了NiTi合金在不同应变幅值循环载荷作用下的力学特性和阻尼性能,并引入了残余内应力分析伪弹性退化机理。用马氏体相变开始应力、残余应变等参数表征NiTi合金伪弹性特征,用等效阻尼比表征NiTi合金的阻尼性能。试验结果分析表明:应变幅值增加会加快NiTi合金伪弹性随循环次数的退化;当应变幅值处于马氏体相变开始和结束应变之间时,不同应变幅值下NiTi合金的马氏体相变平台随循环次数增加同步降低,且当NiTi合金在相变中段卸载时其阻尼性能最好;结合残余内应力与残余应变正相关线性关系可分析NiTi合金伪弹性退化内在机理。该研究可为循环载荷下NiTi合金伪弹性行为的准确描述提供依据,并可为NiTi合金阻尼器的设计提供参考。     

梯度纳米晶NiTi形状记忆合金的超弹性和形状记忆效应相场模拟

通过建立考虑两个马氏体变体的二维相场模型,对梯度纳米晶镍钛(NiTi)合金系统的超弹性、单程和应力辅助双程形状记忆过程进行了模拟和预测.模拟结果显示:在梯度纳米晶NiTi合金的超弹性过程中,较粗晶粒的区域保留了传统粗晶的马氏体相变和逆相变特征,即局部马氏体带的形核?扩展和缩减?消失,而随着晶粒尺寸的减小,细晶粒区域表现...     

钛镍形状记忆合金冲击变形后形状记忆效应的研究

采用SHPB技术和可控速率循环加温条件下变形恢复量测定装置研究了冲击及静载变形后的TiNi形状记忆合金的单程及双程形状记忆特性。发现马氏体状态下的TiNi合金的力学特性显示出明显的应变率强化效应 ,并且高应变率压缩应力应变曲线呈现流动平台。应变率对形状记忆效应的影响具有双重性 ,当外加应力或残余应变较小 ,可逆非弹性变形机制起主导作用时 ,提高应变率可以增加其单程形状记忆效应 ;而随外加应力或残余应变增大 ,当基于位错机制的不可逆非弹性变形机制起主导作用时 ,应变率提高却抑制了其单程形状记忆效应。应变率对TiNi合金双程形状记忆效应的影响视塑性变形的大小而异 ,高应变率动载后的双程形状记忆效应在较小塑性应变时 ,比静载后的要强 ;但在较大塑性应变时两者差别不大。     

相变温度对NiTi形状记忆合金耐磨性的影响

利用WMW-1型摩擦磨损试验机研究了在相同条件下相变温度对6种NiTi形状记忆合金耐磨性的影响,并分析其磨损机制.结果表明:超弹状态NiTi合金具有热弹性马氏体相变、高阻尼效应、应力诱发马氏体和超弹性等特性而使得其耐磨性较好,合金的耐磨性主要取决于相变温度、Ni原子的析出情况和合金硬度.     

应力引起的镍钛单晶形状记忆合金相变的实验研究

在单晶形状记忆合金试样中,由于没有晶粒之间的约束,它的马氏体相界面移动比多晶容易,用实验方法研究其相变的特点,对建立新的理论模型有意义,因而对它的实验分析显得重要。本文利用高分辨率的CCD系统监测到NiTi单晶形状记忆合金在拉伸时的相变伪弹性的过程;利用X射线衍射法得到了NiTi单晶试样在拉伸方向的晶向;运用高分辨率的云纹干涉技术,获得了应力引起的NiTi单晶形状记忆合金相变时的变形场;利用高分辨率、高灵敏度的红外相机记录了NiTi单晶在拉伸状态下的温度变化规律;对低温下NiTi单晶的拉伸性能做了初步的研究,得到一些有意义的现象。     

On the Three Phase Mixtures in Martensitic Transformations of Shape Memory Alloys: Thermodynamical Modeling and Characteristic Temperatures

We study here the thermally-induced martensitic transformation process of shape memory alloys. Taking the internal energy of phase mixtures as the potential function and introducing coherency energies between martensite and austenite and between different variants of the martensitic phase, we are able to use thermodynamical arguments to obtain hysteresis diagrams which could be measured experimentally. The characteristic temperatures for martensitic transformation, (martensite start and finish) and (austenite start and finish) can be identified explicitly and are closely related to the coherency parameters of the coherency energies. Received September 12, 1997     

超弹性形状记忆合金管单向拉伸试验的数值模拟

NiTi形状记忆合金具有很强的超弹性行为,这种超弹性行为是由于材料在应力作用下发生可逆的马氏体相变所引起。最近Sun和Lee^[4]在NiTi形状记忆合金管单向拉伸试验中观测到,应力诱导马氏体相变具有螺旋带状的形貌特征,本文对此作了数值模拟研究。采用包含应变软化效应的三线性本构关系,建立了NiTi形状记忆合金管的三维有限元模型。通过迭代计算,成功地再现了试验中所观察到的螺旋状相变带从形成到长大的全过程。数值计算结果表明,产生这一独特现象的力学机制,在于NiTi形状记忆合金管在拉伸状态下出现的局部变形失稳极其传播。     

A CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR TRANSFORMATION, REORIENTATION AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS

A constitutive model is developed for the transformation, reorientation and plastic deformation of shape memory alloys (SMAs). It is based on the concept that an SMA is a mixture composed of austenite and martensite, the volume fraction of each phase is transformable with the change of applied thermal-mechanical loading, and the constitutive behavior of the SMA is the combination of the individual behavior of its two phases. The deformation of the martensite is separated into elastic, thermal, reorientation and plastic parts, and that of the austenite is separated into elastic, thermal and plastic parts. Making use of the Tanaka’s transformation rule modified by taking into account the effect of plastic deformation, the constitutive model of the SMA is obtained. The ferroelasticity, pseudoelasticity and shape memory effect of SMA Au-47.5 at.%Cd, and the pseudoelasticity and shape memory effect as well as plastic deformation and its effect of an NiTi SMA, are analyzed and compared with experimental results.     

Martensite Strain Memory in the Shape Memory Alloy Nickel-Titanium Under Mechanical Cycling

This paper describes an experimental study of stress-induced martensitic phase transformation in the SMA Nickel-Titanium. The rich local thermo-mechanical interactions that underlie transformation are examined using three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (strain fields) and infrared imaging (thermal fields). We quantify the complex local interactions between released/absorbed latent heat and the extent of transformation, and explore the characteristics of the phase fronts and the evolution of martensitic volume fraction. We also quantify a strong strain memory in the martensite that forms in the wake of the phase transformation front. The accommodated strain in the martensite will remain constant during loading, even as the existing phase front propagates. There also exists a remarkable strain memory in the martensite that persists from cycle to cycle, indicating that the local elastic stress fields in the martensite are driven by a dislocation structure and martensitic nuclei that largely stabilize during the first loading cycle.     

NiTi形状记忆合金裂纹尖端热力耦合行为研究

本文对NiTi形状记忆合金I型裂纹尖端热力耦合行为进行了数值仿真分析和实验验证。建立了包含相变和热力耦合的本构模型,通过有限元计算得到了裂纹尖端附近的纵向应变、马氏体体积分数和温度场分布,依据马氏体相变情况对裂纹尖端有效应力强度因子进行了修正,揭示了加载速率对形状记忆合金裂纹尖端有效应力强度影子的影响规律。参数研究表明,随着加载频率的增加,裂纹尖端附近温度逐渐升高,马氏体相变区域逐渐缩小,有效应力强度因子呈下降趋势,形状记忆合金表现出增韧效应,有助于减缓裂纹扩展。本研究结果对于揭示热力耦合作用下超弹性形状记忆合金疲劳裂纹扩展规律具有重要参考意义。     

Path dependence and multiaxial behavior of a polycrystalline NiTi alloy within the pseudoelastic and pseudoplastic temperature regimes

Several multiaxial experiments on polycrystalline NiTi have been conducted within a wide temperature range. In this vein, the pseudoelastic as well as the pseudoplastic behavior are investigated within the distinct temperature regimes. Isothermal and temperature varying thermomechanical loading paths are applied by means of an active temperature control in order to characterize the path dependence of pseudoelasticity and the multiaxial one-way effect of the alloy. The main focus is on the determination of the dependence of the loading sequence, the related non-linearity of the material and the combined material interaction, e.g., referring to reorientation processes for complex loading paths with respect to pseudoelasticity and the one-way effect. Isothermal tension/compression/torsion experiments are performed on an austenitic microstructure spanning all four quadrants of the axial/torsional strain subspace. In this regard, it is deduced in the course of this contribution that the apparently qualitatively different material behavior for different strain paths in the pseudoelastic temperature regime might be explained by the axial/torsional and tension/compression asymmetry. Furthermore, some multidimensional axial/torsional stress controlled experiments are realized with loading on a martensitic and unloading being implemented both on martensitic and austenitic microstructures. Here, the peculiarity of the one-way effect referring to apparently different transformation temperatures is ascribed to the loading history of the specimen material and to differently oriented martensite variants. In order to elucidate these effects, potential explanations for the pseudoelastic path dependence and the non-linearity in the material behavior with reference to the multiaxial one-way effect are presented.