DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: In situ, 3D characterization of the deformation mechanics of a superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal under multiscale constraint

Abstract

Microstructural elements in NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) – precipitates, phase boundaries, inclusions, grain boundaries – can be viewed as sources of multiscale constraint that influence their deformation response. In this paper, we characterized in situ, and in 3D, the deformation and the evolution of microstructure during a tension test in a superelastic NiTi specimen containing some of these sources of constraint. The method used was far-field high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (ff-HEDM), complemented by electron microscopy. We simulated the local stress state in the specimen using a microstructural model informed by the experimental data. Using these combined microstructure, deformation, and stress data, we report three phenomena, and relate them to specific sources of constraint. During initial elastic loading, axial lattice strain in austenite increased monotonically. On partial stress-induced phase transformation to martensite, the stress redistributed to both phases leading to a stress relaxation in austenite. The specimen contained a dense distribution of inclusions, which led to the activation of martensite habit plane variants that produce less than theoretical maximum transformation strain. Large Ni4Ti3 precipitates potentially contributed to the poor transformation response. Under load, proportional gradients in local rotation and elastic stretch developed in the martensite phase, because of the constraintmore » at phase interfaces. Finally, this combined ff-HEDM, electron microscopy, microstructural simulation toolbox provides a versatile method to understand the effect of constraint on inelastic deformation in other alloys with hierarchical microstructure.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [5];  [6];  [2];  [3]
  1. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Mechanical Engineering; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Mechanical Engineering
  2. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Mechanical Engineering
  3. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States). Mechanical Engineering
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
  5. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
  6. Siberian Physical Technical Inst., Tomsk (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States); Siberian Physical Technical Inst., Tomsk (Russian Federation)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Ministry of Science and Education (Russian Federation)
OSTI Identifier:
1435045
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1549121
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; SC0010594; 1454668; ACI-1053575; ECCS-1542205; DMR-1332208; DMR-1121262; 16.6554.2017/6.7
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Acta Materialia
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 144; Journal ID: ISSN 1359-6454
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; phase transformation; microstructures; finite elements; X-ray diffraction

Citation Formats

Paranjape, Harshad M., Paul, Partha P., Amin-Ahmadi, Behnam, Sharma, Hemant, Dale, Darren, Ko, J. Y. Peter, Chumlyakov, Yury I., Brinson, L. Catherine, and Stebner, Aaron P. In situ, 3D characterization of the deformation mechanics of a superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal under multiscale constraint. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.11.026.
Paranjape, Harshad M., Paul, Partha P., Amin-Ahmadi, Behnam, Sharma, Hemant, Dale, Darren, Ko, J. Y. Peter, Chumlyakov, Yury I., Brinson, L. Catherine, & Stebner, Aaron P. In situ, 3D characterization of the deformation mechanics of a superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal under multiscale constraint. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.11.026
Paranjape, Harshad M., Paul, Partha P., Amin-Ahmadi, Behnam, Sharma, Hemant, Dale, Darren, Ko, J. Y. Peter, Chumlyakov, Yury I., Brinson, L. Catherine, and Stebner, Aaron P. Mon . "In situ, 3D characterization of the deformation mechanics of a superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal under multiscale constraint". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.11.026. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435045.
@article{osti_1435045,
title = {In situ, 3D characterization of the deformation mechanics of a superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy single crystal under multiscale constraint},
author = {Paranjape, Harshad M. and Paul, Partha P. and Amin-Ahmadi, Behnam and Sharma, Hemant and Dale, Darren and Ko, J. Y. Peter and Chumlyakov, Yury I. and Brinson, L. Catherine and Stebner, Aaron P.},
abstractNote = {Microstructural elements in NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) – precipitates, phase boundaries, inclusions, grain boundaries – can be viewed as sources of multiscale constraint that influence their deformation response. In this paper, we characterized in situ, and in 3D, the deformation and the evolution of microstructure during a tension test in a superelastic NiTi specimen containing some of these sources of constraint. The method used was far-field high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (ff-HEDM), complemented by electron microscopy. We simulated the local stress state in the specimen using a microstructural model informed by the experimental data. Using these combined microstructure, deformation, and stress data, we report three phenomena, and relate them to specific sources of constraint. During initial elastic loading, axial lattice strain in austenite increased monotonically. On partial stress-induced phase transformation to martensite, the stress redistributed to both phases leading to a stress relaxation in austenite. The specimen contained a dense distribution of inclusions, which led to the activation of martensite habit plane variants that produce less than theoretical maximum transformation strain. Large Ni4Ti3 precipitates potentially contributed to the poor transformation response. Under load, proportional gradients in local rotation and elastic stretch developed in the martensite phase, because of the constraint at phase interfaces. Finally, this combined ff-HEDM, electron microscopy, microstructural simulation toolbox provides a versatile method to understand the effect of constraint on inelastic deformation in other alloys with hierarchical microstructure.},
doi = {10.1016/j.actamat.2017.11.026},
journal = {Acta Materialia},
number = ,
volume = 144,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

Journal Article:

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 22 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Cyclic deformation mechanisms in precipitated NiTi shape memory alloys
journal, October 2002


Effect of Ni4Ti3 precipitation on martensitic transformation in Ti–Ni
journal, December 2010


Effect of Ti3Ni4 precipitates on the phase transitions in an aged Ti-51.8at% Ni shape memory alloy
journal, September 1990


Local transformation strain measurements in precipitated NiTi single crystals
journal, December 2008


Transformation-induced plasticity during pseudoelastic deformation in Ni–Ti microcrystals
journal, July 2009


Mechanisms for phase transformation induced slip in shape memory alloy micro-crystals
journal, June 2017


Characterization and modeling of defects generated in pseudoelastically deformed NiTi microcrystals
journal, May 2014


On the multiplication of dislocations during martensitic transformations in NiTi shape memory alloys
journal, March 2010


Influences of granular constraints and surface effects on the heterogeneity of elastic, superelastic, and plastic responses of polycrystalline shape memory alloys
journal, May 2017

  • Paranjape, Harshad M.; Paul, Partha P.; Sharma, Hemant
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 102
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.02.007

Texture and grain neighborhood effects on Ni–Ti shape memory alloy performance
journal, September 2014

  • Paranjape, Harshad; Anderson, Peter M.
  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 22, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/22/7/075002

Phase transformations in the proximity of TiC precipitates in a NiTi matrix during fatigue
journal, August 2012


Mechanical fatigue and fracture of Nitinol
journal, January 2012


Fatigue crack-growth in shape-memory NiTi and NiTi–TiC composites
journal, September 2000


P-phase precipitation and its effect on martensitic transformation in (Ni,Pt)Ti shape memory alloys
journal, February 2012


Grain boundary and triple junction constraints during martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys
journal, August 2013

  • Ueland, Stian M.; Schuh, Christopher A.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 114, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4817170

The effect of microstructure on stress-induced martensitic transformation under cyclic loading in the SMA Nickel-Titanium
journal, April 2016

  • Kimiecik, Michael; Jones, J. Wayne; Daly, Samantha
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 89
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2016.01.007

Direct numerical simulation of deformation twinning in polycrystals
journal, November 2016


Modeling slip system strength evolution in Ti-7Al informed by in-situ grain stress measurements
journal, April 2017


Integrating experiments and simulations to estimate uncertainty in lattice strain measurements
journal, August 2013

  • Schuren, Jay C.; Wong, Su L.; Dawson, Paul R.
  • The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Vol. 49, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1177/0309324713492325

Understanding local deformation in metallic polycrystals using high energy X-rays and finite elements
journal, October 2014


Stress and deformation heterogeneity in individual grains within polycrystals subjected to fully reversed cyclic loading
journal, June 2015

  • Wong, Su Leen; Obstalecki, Mark; Miller, Matthew P.
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 79
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.03.010

Determination of residual stress in a microtextured α titanium component using high-energy synchrotron X-rays
journal, May 2016

  • Park, Jun-Sang; Ray, Atish K.; Dawson, Paul R.
  • The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Vol. 51, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1177/0309324716640419

Characterizing heterogeneous intragranular deformations in polycrystalline solids using diffraction-based and mechanics-based metrics
journal, May 2017

  • Carson, Robert; Obstalecki, Mark; Miller, Matthew
  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 25, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-651X/aa6dc5

Grain-resolved analysis of localized deformation in nickel-titanium wire under tensile load
journal, August 2016


A rotational and axial motion system load frame insert for in situ high energy x-ray studies
journal, September 2015

  • Shade, Paul A.; Blank, Basil; Schuren, Jay C.
  • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 86, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4927855

Far-field high-energy diffraction microscopy: a tool for intergranular orientation and strain analysis
journal, July 2011

  • Bernier, J. V.; Barton, N. R.; Lienert, U.
  • The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, Vol. 46, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1177/0309324711405761

New opportunities for quantitative tracking of polycrystal responses in three dimensions
journal, August 2015

  • Schuren, Jay C.; Shade, Paul A.; Bernier, Joel V.
  • Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, Vol. 19, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2014.11.003

Observation of changing crystal orientations during grain coarsening
journal, January 2012


High-energy diffraction microscopy at the advanced photon source
journal, July 2011


Synchrotron applications of an amorphous silicon flat-panel detector
journal, July 2008

  • Lee, John H.; Aydıner, C. Can; Almer, Jonathan
  • Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 15, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1107/S090904950801755X

Local and global strains and strain ratios in shape memory alloys using digital imagecorrelation
journal, April 2013

  • Bewerse, Catherine; Gall, Keith R.; McFarland, Gavin J.
  • Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 568
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2013.01.030

Stress-induced martensitic phase transformation in thin sheets of Nitinol
journal, June 2007


Martensite Strain Memory in the Shape Memory Alloy Nickel-Titanium Under Mechanical Cycling
journal, December 2010


Ncorr: Open-Source 2D Digital Image Correlation Matlab Software
journal, March 2015


Compressive response of NiTi single crystals
journal, August 2000


Texture Analysis with MTEX – Free and Open Source Software Toolbox
journal, February 2010


Influence of carbon on martensitic phase transformations in NiTi shape memory alloys
journal, February 2007


Impurity levels and fatigue lives of pseudoelastic NiTi shape memory alloys
journal, June 2013


Elementary martensitic transformation processes in Ni-rich NiTi single crystals with Ni4Ti3 precipitates
journal, August 2006


Coupling between measured kinematic fields and multicrystal SMA finite element calculations
journal, January 2010


The variant selection criteria in single-crystal CuAlNi shape memory alloys
journal, September 2000


Crystallography of martensitic transformation in TiNi single crystals
journal, August 1987


Strain intermittency in shape-memory alloys
journal, May 2015


Quantitative determination of strain fields around Ni4Ti3 precipitates in NiTi
journal, February 2005


Linking a completely three-dimensional nanostrain to a structural transformation eigenstrain
journal, June 2009

  • Tirry, Wim; Schryvers, Dominique
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat2488

Deformation and transition behavior associated with theR-phase in Ti-Ni alloys
journal, January 1986

  • Miyazaki, S.; Otsuka, K.
  • Metallurgical Transactions A, Vol. 17, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF02644442

The R-phase transition and associated shape memory mechanism in Ti-Ni single crystals
journal, January 1988


Multiple-step martensitic transformations in Ni-rich NiTi alloys--an in-situ transmission electron microscopy investigation
journal, January 2003


In situ neutron diffraction studies of the R-phase transformation in the NiTi shape memory alloy
journal, December 2002

  • Luk�?, P.; ?ittner, P.; Lugovoy, D.
  • Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, Vol. 74, Issue 0
  • DOI: 10.1007/s003390101201

R-phase transformation phenomena in thermomechanically loaded NiTi polycrystals
journal, May 2006


Crystallography of the B2 → R → B19′ phase transformations in NiTi
journal, June 2004


Playing with defects in metals
journal, June 2017


Works referencing / citing this record:

High Speed In Situ Synchrotron Observation of Cyclic Deformation and Phase Transformation of Superelastic Nitinol at Ultrasonic Frequency
journal, December 2019


A Planar Biaxial Experiment Platform for In Situ High-Energy Diffraction Studies
journal, May 2019