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Crystallography and Phase Transitions in the Ta-Ru and Nb-Ru Shape Memory Alloys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

R. W. Fonda  and
R. A. Vandermeer
R. W. Fonda
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6324, Washington, DC, 20375
R. A. Vandermeer
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6324, Washington, DC, 20375
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A new class of shape memory alloys, based on near-equiatomic compositions of Ta-Ru and Nb-Ru, was recently discovered at the Naval Research Laboratory. These alloys exhibit transformation temperatures ranging up to 1400 °C for Ta-Ru and 1100 °C for Nb-Ru, making them the highest transition temperature shape memory alloys yet discovered. Other shape memory alloys typically have transition temperatures within a couple hundred degrees of room temperature. These two alloy systems are quite similar in their transformation behavior. Near the equiatomic composition, the high temperature β phase of both systems has a B2-ordered cubic crystal structure. During cooling, the cubic lattice of β undergoes a slight tetragonal distortion to form the β' phase. Continued cooling of the tetragonal β'(within specific composition ranges) causes a transformation to β'', which is reported to have an orthorhombic crystal structure. The effect of alloy composition on the temperatures, hysteresis, and strains of these transformations was determined by dilatometry.

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Phase Transformations in Metals and Alloys
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 711 - 712
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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