aDepartment of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China
bDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, CB2, 1PZ, Cambridge, UK
Abstract:
The incomplete transformations of near equiatomic TiNi shape memory alloys were investigated by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The results showed that the incomplete transformation can induce multistage phase transformation in a sample showing R-phase transformation, when the turn back temperature located in a value between Rf and Ms, the heat flow detected upon following heating only shows one endothermic peak. With decreasing the turn back temperature to a temperature between Ms and Mf, two endothermic peaks (multistage phase transformation) can be observed upon the following heating. There were no incomplete transformation induced multistage phase transformations in a sample without R-phase transformation.