Influence of thermomechanical processing on the martensitic transformation temperatures of NiTi SMA wire

Abstract

Most of the applications of NiTi SMA are as a wire form. In this sense it is important to know the effects of thermo-mechanical processing such as reduction per pass and intermediate annealing on the wire drawing process. For this work they were produced wire by cold drawing using 15 % area reduction per pass with and without intermediate annealing. The starting ingot was produced by VIM process. The influence of thermo-mechanical processing will be related to the martensitic transformation temperatures. © (2010) Trans Tech Publications.

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