The influence of plastic deformation on the magnetostriction constant of iron-nickel alloys

The magnetostriction constant of three iron-nickel alloys and one Fe-Ni-Co alloy was measured as a function of the plastic elongation up to about 25%. The magnetostriction constant decreases with deformation in all materials. In Fe-Ni-Co alloy the volume magnetostriction also decreases. The influence of crystallographic texture is discussed and it is shown that it is not a decisive factor. The observed decrease is explained by assuming the influence of lattice deformation on spin-orbital interaction.

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In conclusion the authors thank Z. Málek and S. Libovický for carefully reading this paper and for remarks, J. Míová for help in the measurements, J. Cáslavský for X-ray determination of the texture and members of the chemical department of the Institute of Physics for thermal treatment and analysis of the samples.