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# Determination of Elastic and Dissipative Energy Contributions to Martensitic Phase Transformation in Shape Memory Alloys

By Dezso L. Beke, Lajos Daróczi and Tarek Y. Elrasasi

Submitted: December 14th 2011Reviewed: July 11th 2012Published: April 3rd 2013

DOI: 10.5772/51511

## 1. Introduction

There is a long standing debate in the literature on shape memory alloys that while the contribution of the dissipative energy, D, to the austenite/martensite, A/M, (or reverse) transformation can be directly obtained from the experimental data (hysteresis loop, Differential Scanning Calorimeter, DSC, curves), the contributions from the elastic, E, and the chemical free energy, Gc, can not be separated. The temperature dependence of Gc=H-TS is described by Gc=(T-To)S, where To=S/H is the equilibrium transformation temperature (at which the chemical free energies of the two phases equals, i.e. Gc=0) as well as H and S are the chemical enthalpy and entropy change of the phase transformation (they are negative for A to M transformation), respectively. The experimentally determined quantities (DSC or hysteresis curves) usually contain a combination of the chemical, elastic and dissipative terms in such a way [1] that always the sum of E and Gc can be calculated and thus for their separation one would need the knowledge of S and To (see also below in details). While the direct determination of S is possible (e.g. from the measured DSC curves) the determination of To is rather difficult: it has been shown and experimentally illustrated that the simple expression proposed by Tong and Waynman [2]: To=(Ms+Af)/2 (where Ms and Af are the martensite start and austenite finish temperatures) can not be valid in general. Indeed Salzbrenner and Cohen [1] have been nicely illustrated that To can be calculated from the above relation only in those cases when the elastic energy contributions to Ms and Af can be neglected.

In this review we will summarize our model [3-8] for the thermal hysteresis loops, =(T) (at constant other driving fields such as uniaxial stress, , magnetic field, B, or pressure, p) in terms of To, and the derivatives S/=s, E/=e and D/=d, where is the martensite transformed (volume) fraction. (In the following quantities given by small letters denote the quantity belonging to unit volume fraction.) Similar relations for example for the strain, (), versus (or e.g. magnetization, m(), versus B) hysteresis loops can be derived, where instead of s, tr (or mtr) appears. Here tr is the transformation strain (and mtr is the change of magnetization) of phase transformation. The results obtained from the application of this model to our experimental data measured in single and polycrystalline CuAlNi alloys will be summarized too.

## 2. Description of the model

Our model is in fact a local equilibrium formalism and based on the thermoelastic balance (see e.g. [9,10] and [11]) offering a simple form of the elastic and dissipative energy contributions to the start and finish parameters [3-8]. The total change of the Gibbs free energy versus the transformed martensite fraction (if the hydrostatic pressure and the magnetic field are zero), for the A/M transformation (denoted by ), can be written in the form [3,8]:

(ΔG)/ζ=(ΔGc+ E + D)/ζ= Δgc+ e(ζ) +d(ζ) = 0.E1

where

Δg=ΔuTΔsσVεtr,E2

with ∆s=sM-sA(= -∆s(<0)), and V is the molar volume. Similar expression holds for the M/A transformation (with upper index ):

Δg=ΔuTΔsσVεtr.E3

The elastic energy accumulates as well as releases during the processes down and up just because the formation of different variants of the martensite phase usually is accompanied by a development of an elastic energy field (due to the transformation strain). It is usually supposed that Eel = - Eel >0. The dissipative energy is always positive in both directions.

In thermoelastic transformations the elastic term plays a determining role. For example at a given under-cooling, when the elastic term will be equal to the chemical one, for the further growth of the martensite an additional under-cooling is required. Thus if the sample is further cooled the M phase will grow further, while if the sample is heated it will become smaller. Indeed in thermoelastic materials it was observed that once a particle formed and reached a certain size its growth was stopped and increased or decreased as the temperature was decreased or raised. This is the thermoelastic behaviour (the thermal and elastic terms are balanced).

In principle, one more additional term, proportional to the entropy production, should be considered, but it can be supposed [12] that for thermoelastic transformations all the energy losses are mechanical works, which are dissipated without entropy production, i.e. the dissipation is mainly energy relaxation in the form of elastic waves. Indeed acoustic waves were detected as acoustic emissions during the transformation. Thus in the following the term proportional to the entropy production will be neglected. Furthermore, usually there is one more additional term in ∆G: this is the nucleation energy related to the formation of the interfaces between the nucleus of the new phase and the parent material. However, since this term, similarly to the dissipative energy, is positive in both directions and thus it is difficult to separate from D, it can be considered to be included in the dissipative term.

According to the definitions of the equilibrium transformation temperature and stress

To(0)=Δu/Δs=Δu/Δs,E4
σo(0)=Δu/Vεtr(T=0)=Δu/Vetr(T=0),              E5

respectively.

∆gc, if the external hydrostatic pressure, p, and magnetic field, B, are also not zero, can have the general form as:

Δgc=ΔuTΔssVetr+pΔvBΔmtr,E6

where ∆v is the volume change of the phase transformation.

It is plausible to assume that u, s and ∆v are independent of , i.e. ∆U, ∆V and S linearly depends on the transformed fraction. On the other hand the terms containing tr and mtr in general have tensor character and, as a consequence, even if one considers uniaxial loading condition, leading to scalar terms in (2), the field dependence of these quantities is related to the change of the variant/domain distribution in the martensite phase with increasing field parameters. Thus at zero (or B) values thermally oriented multi-variant martensite structure (or multi-variant magnetic domain structure) forms in thermal hysteresis, while at high enough values of (or B) a well oriented array i.e. a single variant (or single domain structure) develops. For the description of this, the volume fraction of the stress induced (single) variant martensite structure, η, can be introduced [8]: =VM/VM, (VM=VMT+VM and =VM/V, with V=VM+VA, where VM and VA are the volume of the martensite and austenite phases, respectively and VMT and VM denotes the volume of the thermally as well as the stress induced martensite variants, respectively). The concept of introduction of this parameter was based e.g. on works of [11, 13-15]. Accordingly, e.g. tr is maximal for =1, and tr(=1)=trmax in single crystalline sample, while it can be close to zero for =0. In the following only the case of simultaneous action of temperature and uniaxial stress will be treated (extension to more general cases is very plausible).

Thus, in (2) and (3) tr depends on . Since depends on T and , tr can also depend on T or at fixed or T, respectively.

From (1) with (2):

ΔuTΔsσVεtr+e+d=0.E7

For fixed parameter(s) from (6) and using also (4) for u (for both up and down processes);

T(ζ)=To(0) σVεtr(σ)/Δs+(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Δs= To(σ)+(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Δs(a)T(ζ)=To(0) σVεtr(σ)/Δs+(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Δs= To(σ)+(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Δs.(b)E8

Here To() is the same for both directions, since tr/∆s=tr/∆s (tr=-tr, as well as ∆s=-∆s and in our case tr>0 and ∆s<0).

The inverses of (8a) and (8b), i.e. the ( T) and ( T) functions, are the down and up braches of the thermal hysteresis loops at fixed . Furthermore, the temperature at which (8a) is equal to zero at =0 as well as =1 is the martensite start (Ms) and finish (Mf) temperature, respectively. Similar definitions hold for the austenite start and finish temperatures, As and Af, respectively (see eq. (8b)). Figure 1 illustrates the shape of the hysteresis curves for the following schematic cases: a) both d() and e() are zero; b) e()=0 and d()0, but d() is constant; c) d() is constant and e() linearly depends on . It can be seen that in a) the transformation takes place at To, in both directions, in b) there is already a hysteresis, but the (T) and (T) branches are vertical. For the case of c) the hysteresis curve is tilted, reflecting the dependence of e.

Similarly as above but for fixed temperature(s), and now inserting u from (5),

σ(ζ) =σo(0)Vεtr(σo)/Vεtr(T)  TΔs/Vεtr(T) +(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Vεtr(T)=(a)σo(T) +(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Vεtr(T)σ(ζ) =σo(0)Vεtr(σo)/Vεtr(T) TΔs/Vεtr(T) +(e(ζ)+d(ζ))/Vεtr(T)=(b)σo(T) +(e(ζ)+dζ))/Vεtr(T).E9

Here again o(T) is the same taking also into account that tr(o)/tr(T)= tr(o)/Vtr(T), because the magnitude of the transformation strain is the same for the up and down branches of the loop at fixed T.

It can be seen from relations (8) and (9) that, in the case of the simultaneous action of temperature and uniaxial stress only, the stress dependence of the equilibrium transformation temperature, as well as the temperature dependence of the equilibrium transformation stress, introducing the notation ∆s=∆s=-∆s(<0), can be given as

To(σ)= To(0) +σVεtr(σ)/(Δs),E10
and
σo(T)=σo(0)εtr(σo)/εtr(T)  TΔs/Vεtr(T) = [To(0)T]Δs/Vεtr(T),E11

respectivelty. It can be seen that (10) and (11) are the well known Clausius-Clapeyron relations and they are linear only if tr() as well as tr(T) are constant. It will be illustrated below that in most of the cases this is not fulfilled.

Now taking the assumptions usual in the treatment of thermoelastic transformations, i.e. assuming that the magnitudes of elastic and dissipative energies and their derivatives are the same in both A/M and M/A transformations; e()=e()=-e() as well as d()=d()=d(), (8a) and (8b) can be rewritten as

T(ζ)= To(σ)[e(ζ)+d(ζ)]/(Δs)(a)T(ζ)= To(σ)+[d(ζ)e(ζ)]/(Δs).(b)E12

Thus

T(ζ) T(ζ)=2d(ζ)/(Δs)E13
and
T(ζ)+T(ζ)= 2To(σ) 2e(ζ)/(Δs)E14

Furthermore, for the branches of the () hysteresis loops

σ(ζ) =σo(T) +[e(ζ)+d(ζ)]/Vεtr(T)(a)andσ(ζ) =σo(T)  [d(ζ)  e(ζ)]/Vεtr(T).(b)E15

Thus

σ(ζ) σ(ζ) = 2d(ζ)/Vεtr(T)E16
and
σ(ζ) +σ(ζ)=2σo(T) +2e(ζ)/Vεtr(T).E17

It can be seen from eqs. (12)-(17) that, as it was mentioned in the introduction, while the dissipative term can be directly calculated from the hysteretic loops, the elastic and chemical terms appear in sums on the right hand sides of (14) and (17). It is worth noting that the integrals of (13) as well as (16), as it is expected, are nothing else that the area of the thermal and mechanical hystersis loops, respectively.

Nevertheless, relations (10)-(17) allow the determination of the dissipative and elastic energy contributions as the function of at different fixed values of as well as T from the thermal and stress induced hystersis loops, respectively. Thus even the and T dependence of E and D can be calculated by integrating the e() and d() functions between =0 and =1. It should be noted that the elastic energy contribution can be determined only exclusive the term To(0) if its value is not known. The values of ∆s can be obtained from DSC measurements (see also below) and the tr(T) and tr() values can be read out from the () and (T) hystersis loops, respectively. Thus e.g. the stress or temperature dependence of the elastic energy contribution can be determined, since To(0) appears only in the intercept of the e() and e(T) or E() and E(T) functions.

From relations (12) and (15) expressions for the start and finish temperatures as well as stresses can be simply obtained at =0 and at =1:

Ms(σ)= To(σ) [do+ eo]/[Δs]Mf(σ)= To(σ) [d1+ e1]/[Δs]Af(σ)= To(σ)+ [do eo]/[Δs]As(σ)= To(σ)+ [d1 e1]/[Δs]E18
and
σMs(T)=σo(T)[do+ eo]/[Vεtr] σMf(T)=σo(T)[d1+ e1]/[Vεtr]σAf(T)=σo(T)+ [do eo]/[Vεtr]σAs(T)=σo(T)+ [d1 e1]/[Vεtr].E19

Here in principle the do,d1,eo and e1 can also be or T-dependent: in this case e.g. the stress dependence of the start and finish temperatures can be different from the stress dependence of To. It can be seen from relations (18) that the simple expression proposed by Tong and Waynman [2] for To as To=(Ms+Af)/2 can be valid only if eo is zero. Indeed Salzbrenner and Cohen [1] illustrated that To can be calculated only in those cases when the elastic energy contributions to Ms and Af can be neglected. In their paper the phase transformation was driven by a slowly moving temperature gradient in a single crystalline sample, which resulted in slow motion of only one interface across the specimen (single-interface transformation). This way the elastic energy could easily relax by the formation of the surface relief at the moving (single) phase-boundary. In general experiments for the determination of hystersis loops, where typically many interfaces move simultaneously and the elastic fields of the different nuclei overlap, this separation is not possible. However, as we have shown in [5], and as it will be illustrated below, in single crystalline samples under relatively slow heating (cooling) rates, from the analysis of the different shapes of the hystersis curves at low and high stress levels To can be determined experimentally as the function of .

Finally it is worth summarizing what kind of information can be obtained from the analysis of results obtained by differential scanning calorimeter, DSC. The heats of transformation measurable during both transitions are given by

Q=[Δuc+ e(ζ) + d(ζ)]dζE20
and
Q=[Δuc e(ζ) + d(ζ)]dζ.E21

It is worth noting that the heat measured is negative if the system evolves it: thus e.g. the first term in (20) has a correct sign, because it is negative (uc<0). Similarly the dissipative and elastic tems should be positive for cooling (the system absorbs these energies): indeed e(), d()>0, while for heating e()=-e()=e() and d()=d()=d().

Now, using the notations uc=Uc(<0), d()d= D(>0), e()d= E (>0)

Q= ΔUc+ E + DE22
and
Q= ΔUc E + D.E23

(In obtaining (22) and (23) it was used that uc is independent of .) Consequently

Q Q= 2ΔUc+ 2EE24
and
Q+Q= 2D.E25

It is important to keep in mind that the last equations are strictly valid only if after a cycle the system has come back to the same thermodynamic state, i.e. it does not evolve from cycle to cycle. Furthermore, it can be shown [12] that these are only valid if the heat capacities of the two phases are equal to each other: cAcM, which was the case in our samples (see also below).The DSC curves also offer the determination of s. Indeed from the Q versus T curves, taking the integrals of the 1/T curves by Q or Q between Ms and Mf, as well as between As and Af, respectively, one gets the s as well as s values. If, again, the cAcM condition fulfils, then s- s [12].

Finally, it is possible, by using the DSC curve [I6], to obtain the volume fraction of the martensite, ξ, as a function of temperature (both for cooling and heating) as the ratio of the partial and full area of the corresponding curve (AMs-T and AMs-Mf, respectively: see also Figure 2 ):

ζ(T)=AMsTAMsMf=MsTdQT/MsMfdQTE26
.

Similar relation holds for the ξ (T) curve (obviously in this case the above integrals run between As and T as well as As and Af, respectively). The denominator is just the entropy of this transformation.

## 3. Analysis of experimental data

### 3.1. Stress and temperature dependence of the transformation strain

As it was mentioned in the previous section it is generally expected that the transformation strain depends on the martensite variant structure developed. Since for thermal hystersis loops this structure can vary from the randomly oriented structure to a well oriented single variant structure with increasing uniaxial stress, tr should increase with . Figure 3b shows this function for single crystalline CuAl(11.5wt%)Ni(5.0wt%) alloy (the applied stress was parallel to the [110] direction), as determined from the saturation values of the T loops shown in Figure 3a [18]. In this alloy (i.e. at this composition) the (austenite) to ’(18R, martensite) transformation takes place. Figure 4a shows the temperature dependence of tr, in the same alloy, as determined form the loops shown in Figure 4b [18]. It can be seen that tr increases with increasing temperature and saturates at the same maximal value which is obtained from the tr versus plot and is approximately equal to the maximal possible transformation strain, trmax, corresponding to the estimated value for the case when a single crystal fully transforms to the most preferably oriented martensite [19].

Figure 5 shows the stress dependence of the transformation strain for the to orthorhombic (2H) phase transformation obtained in CuAl(17.9w%)Ni(2.6 w%) single crystalline alloy in [5]. It can be seen that it has S shape dependence with a saturation value of 0.075. It is interesting that in this case tr has a finite (remanent) value even at =0.

As it was analyzed in detail in [19], from the above curves the dependence of tr can be constructed using the relation introduced in [8]:

εtr=εT+ (εsεT)η,E27

where T and are the transformation strains when fully thermally induced multi variant structure forms (=0), as well as when the martensite consists of a fully ordered array of stress preferred variants (single variant state, =1), respectively. Thus tr can be very small or even close to zero for the formation of the thermally induced (randomly oriented) martensite variants (usually there is a small resultant (remanent) strain in single crystalline samples). On the other hand during the formation of stress induced martensite a single variant structure can form (=1) i.e. tr=trmax=. On the basis of the experimental curves shown in Figure 3b, 4b and 5 as was well as of relation (27) it can be concluded that a fully ordered single variant martensite structure develops above 140 MPa for the / phase transformation, while for the /’ transformation is about 80% already for 28 MPa and then gradually increases up to 100% in the 40 - 178 MPa interval. As regards the temperature dependence of, it can be seen from Figure 4a that (according to eq. (27) T0 and =0.061) monotonously increases from about 10% up to 100% between 350 and 430 K.

Thus it can be concluded that the transformation strain depends both on the uniaxial stress and on the temperature and this dependence is related to the change of the martensite variant distribution with increasing field parameters. Then it is plausible to expect that the Clausius-Clapeyron type relations (see eqs. (10) and (11)) should also be non linear. Furthermore, the elastic and dissipative energy contributions should also be influenced by the martensite variant distribution. These points will be discussed in detail in the following sections.

### 3.2. Stress dependence of the equilibrium transformation temperature

In reference [5] we have investigated the thermal hysteresis loops in CuAl(17.9w%)Ni(2.6 w%) single crystalline alloy at different uniaxial stresses (applied along the [110]A axis). Very interesting shapes were obtained (see Figure 6): the T loops had vertical parts, indicating that at these parts there were no elastic energy contributions (see also Figure 1c), allowing the determination of To from the start and finish temperatures (see also eqs. (18)) either using the Tong-Waymann formula, To=(Ms+Af)/2, (see the curve at 171.5 MPa in Figure 6) or To= (Ms+As)/2 (see e.g. the curve at 42.4 MPa in Figure 6). Thus it was possible (using also relation (10) and the value of the entropy, s=-1.169 105JKm-3, determined also in [5] and the stress dependence of tr shown in Figure 5) to determine the stress dependence of To as it is shown in Figure 7. It can be seen that this is indeed not a linear function.

Figure 8 shows the stress dependence of To for the / transformation. In this case the determination of absolute values of To was not possible, but the To() – To(0) difference could be calculated using the measured s value and the tr() curve (Figure 3b). It can be seen that this function can be approximated by a straight line in the entire stress interval. But, as it is illustrated in the insert of this figure, if we plot this function only at low stresses then an S-shape dependence appears. Thus it can be concluded, in contrast to the very frequently used approximation in the literature [9,20,21] about linear Calusius-Clapeyron relations, that the dependent tr usually leads to nonlinear dependence [18,19]. Of course in special cases, i.e. when the dependence of tr in the investigated range is week, or the stress interval wide enough to have many points belonging to the saturation value of tr a linear fit with an effective slope can be made, like in Figure 8. The slope of this straight line is 0.90 K/MPa, which corresponds to an effective constant tr value in equation (10) equal to 0.065 (s=-7.2x104J/Km-3 [18]), which is a bit larger that trsat=0.061 [18,19].

Closing this section Figure 9 shows the stress dependence of the transformation strain in polycrystalline Cu-20at%Al-2.2at%Ni-0.5%B alloy [6,22] for /’ transformation. It can be seen that here T is zero. Indeed, quite frequently in polycrystalline samples (see also [14,15]) T is zero or close to zero and it can also happen that the saturation can not be reached in the σ interval investigated (as it is the case here as well).

### 3.3. Dependence of the derivatives of the elastic and dissipative energy contributions on the martensite volume fraction

As it was pointed out in Section 2 equations (13), (14) and (16), (17) offer the possibility to calculate the dependence of d and the 2To() -2e()/(-∆s) terms (or the e term directly if To is known) on the transformed martensite volume fraction. In the case of CuAl(17.9w%)Ni(2.6w%) single crystalline alloy we could determine both the equilibrium transformation temperature and the entropy thus Figure 10 shows the d() as well as the e() function, respectively for 171.5 MPa (high stress limit). It can be seen that indeed the elastic energy contributions is zero up to about c=0.37 and then significantly increases with increasing (see also Figure 6) indicating that there is an elastic energy accumulation in this stage. Furthermore, since we have different shapes of the hysteresis loops at low and high stress limits (see also Figures 6), Figure 11 shows the e() function at 42.4 MPa for the cooling down process. It is worth mentioning that a detailed analysis (see [5]) shows that the unusual shape of the loop at this stress level indicated (see Figure 12 which shows the inverse of the T() loop obtained at 42.4 MPa: the sums and differences of the cooling and heating branches give the dependence of the elastic and dissipative terms, respectively) that the elastic energy accumulation was practically zero up to about =0.63 during cooling and again zero for heating but, surprisingly now from =1 down to =0.37.

The above behaviour can be understood as follows [5]: under high stress levels the stress will prefer the nucleation of special variant(s), which can freely grow without the accumulation of elastic energy at the beginning and during cooling the relaxation of the stress starts from =1 and after a certain value the elastic contribution will be zero. This is what was usually observed in martensitic transformations and can be described as ‘‘the first plate of martensite to form during cooling is usually the last plate of martensite to revert on heating’’ [1]. Thus in this case obviously after >c the elastic fields of the growing martensite variants will overlap (or in addition to the single growing variant, new nuclei can also form) and accumulation of the elastic energy takes place. On heating the reverse phenomenon (i.e. first the last martensite plates start to revert and the relaxation of the stored elastic energy between =1 and =c takes place) can be observed. On the other hand curves at low stress levels showed different features. Indeed the multiple interface transformation takes place in the form as described above only in bulk samples and as stated in [1] “for other shapes of the same crystal (say, thin discs) the reverse transformation may nucleate competitively at separate places’’. Indeed in [5] the samples had a form of rod with a relatively small cross-section. In this case there are no preferred martensite variants (if the stress level is too low and is in the order of magnitude of the internal random stress field) and the first martensite nuclei can appear at easy nucleation places (e.g. tips, edges). Nevertheless, at the beginning (around Ms) of cooling down, there is no change in the elastic energy (i.e. e is approximately zero) up to a certain value of c (either because the transformation takes place in a single interface mode, or because the elastic fields of the formed nuclei does not overlap yet). Obviously, for >c the elastic fields of the martensites formed start to overlap and accumulation of the elastic energy takes place. Thus this forward part of the transformation is very similar to that observed at high tensile stresses. In the reverse process the heating up branch of the hysteresis curve indicates that the first austenite particles may nucleate competitively at easy nucleation places (where the first martensite nuclei were formed during cooling) and thus at As the change in the elastic energy can be negligible. Indeed, as optical microscopic observations confirmed [5], the formation of surface relief at low stress level (at about=0) in the backward transformation usually started at places where the formation of the first martensite plates occurred (and not at places where their formation finished). Thus Figure 11 (on the right) shows the e() for the heating up branch, but by using a mirror transformation (for the details see [5]).

Figure 13 shows the d(ξ)=d(ξ)=d(ξ) as well as the e(ξ)=e(ξ)=-e(ξ) functions in single crystalline samples for /’ transformations [18], respectively. Since in this case we were not able to determine To the elastic energy derivative contains also the constant term 2To()Δs (see eq.(14)).

In Figure 14 the d(ξ)=d(ξ)=d(ξ) as well as the e(ξ)=e(ξ)=-e(ξ) functions are shown for polycrystalline Cu-20at%Al-2.2at%Ni-0.5%B alloy (/’ transformation) [22]. Here again the elastic energy derivative contains the constant 2To()Δs term.

### 3.4. Stress and temperature dependence of the elastic and dissipative terms

We have seen that the relations presented in Section 2 allow calculating the stress as well as temperature dependence of the derivatives of the elastic or dissipative energies, at a fixed value, or their integrals, i.e. the E and D quantities, from the T, as well as from the loops, respectively. Let us see these functions for the there alloys investigated.

In the single crystalline CuAl(17.9w%)Ni(2.6w%) samples (/ transformation) the dissipative energy contributions were calculated from the parallel parts of the loops (see Figure 6), using that d is independent of here. These values can be seen in Figure 15 as the function of the applied stress [5, 22]. It shows a slight maximum at around 90 MPa, i.e. there are increasing and decreasing tendencies in the low and the high stress range, respectively. Figure 16 shows the full dissipated energy and stored elastic energy in martensitic state as the function of applied stress. It can be seen that the dissipative energy slightly decreases while the elastic one increases with increasing stress. This is similar to the behaviour observed in NiTi single crystals in [23].

In single crystalline CuAl(11.5wt%)Ni(5.0wt%) alloys (/’ transformation) the stress dependence of e and d quantities at fixed values of (at =1 and =0, denoted by indexes 1 and 0, respectively) is shown in Figure 17, while Figure 18 illustrates the temperature dependence of them. Furthermore in Figure 19 and 20 the total dissipative and elastic energies are shown as the function of as well as T. It can be seen from Figure 17 that, although the scatter of points is rather high, the di (i=1, 0) terms can have a maximum at around 60 MPa, while their average value at the low and high stress values is 7 J/mol [18]. On the other hand the elastic energy term has definite stress dependence with the slopes -0.25 and -014 J/molMPa for eo and e1, respectively. Furthermore, both the elastic and dissipative terms have linear temperature dependence (Figure 18) with the following slopes: eo/T=-0.50J/molK, e1/T=-0.18J/molK, and do/Td1/T=-0.028J/molK [18, 24]. Thus it is not surprising that in Figure 19 the dissipative energy D has a maximum at about 60 MPa and the elastic energy, E, has linear stress dependence (decreases with increasing stress), while in Figure 20 the D versus T function is almost constant and E has a negative slope too.

The values obtained for the do and d1 (and D) quantities are almost the same values in both sets, but their value is lower for the loops by a factor of 3. Nevertheless, the average value on the di versus plots at low and high stresses (7J/mol) is close to 4 J/mol obtained from the di(T) functions. Furthermore, since at higher temperatures higher stress is necessary to start the transformation, it is also plausible that the negative slope of the second part on Figure 17 should correspond to a negative slope on the di(T) functions. Indeed there is a slight decreasing tendency with increasing T on Figure 18. Unfortunately, the accuracy of our present results does not allow a deeper and proper analysis of the field dependence of the dissipative terms. In addition, the details of the transformation (and thus the magnitude of di) can be different for stress and temperature induced transformations as well as can also depend on the prehistory of the samples (not investigated here).

In polycrystalline Cu-20at%Al-2.2at%Ni-0.5%B samples (/’ transformation) [3,22] Figures 21 and 22 show the stress dependence of the di, ei as well as D and E quantities, respectively.

Closing this subsection it is worth mentioning two more aspects. One is the self-consistency of our analysis. The dots at =0 in Figures 19 and 22 show the values calculated from the DSC curves, according to the relations (24) and (25). Thus e.g. Q+Q =2D=25J/mol (Q=- 331.6 J/mol, Q= 357.6 J/mol [18]) in Figure 19. It can be seen that these dots fit self-consistently within the experimental errors to the other dots calculated from the independent (hysteresis loops) measurement. The another point is related to the connection between the stress and temperature dependence of tr(i.e. the change of the martensite variant structure) and the stress and temperature dependence of the characteristic parameters of the hysteresis loops in single crystalline samples. Although this point will be analyzed in detail in the next subsection too, it is worth summarizing some qualitative correlations: i) as it can be seen from Figure 5 as well as Figures 15 and 16 the E and D quantities change in the same stress interval where tr for the / transformation, ii) a very similar relation can be observed between tr (Figure 3b) and d as well as D for /’ transformation (Figures 17 and 19).

### 3.5. Stress and temperature dependence of the start and finish temperatures and stresses, respectively

#### 3.5.1. Stress dependence of the start and finish temperatures

It is worth investigating whether the commonly used assumption in the literature (see e.g. [9, 25, 26]) that the slopes of the start and finish temperatures and the slope of the To() are approximately the same or not. From the relations, presented in Section 2, it is clear that i) strictly even the linear dependence of To is not fulfilled in general (see e.g. Figure 3b which illustrates that tr is not constant), ii) the dependence of the elastic and dissipative terms (ei, di, i= 0,1) as compared to the To() function, can also give a contribution to the stress dependence of the start and finish temperatures (see relations (18)). Such an analysis was carried out for the results obtained in single crystalline CuAl(11.5wt%)Ni(5.0wt%) alloys (/’ transformation) in [18] and will be summarized here. As we have already seen in Figure 8 the To()-To(0) function can be approximated by a straight line, neglecting the small deviations in the interval between 0 and 50 MPa. In fact this slight S-shape part up to 50 MPa is the consequence of the stress dependence of tr(see the insert in Figure 8). The straight, line fitted in the whole stress range, gives the slope 0.39 0.05 K/MPa. At the same time the slopes of Ms and Af as well as Mf, and As (as shown in Figure 23, on the left) are almost the same: 0.59 as well as 0.50 K/MPa, respectively. Thus these differ from the one obtained for the slope of To(). It should be decided whether this difference comes from the stress dependence of di or ei parameters or from both. As it can be seen in Figure 17, although the di function indicates a maximum at around 60 MPa, from the point of view of the slope of this function in the whole stress interval, one can assume that within the scatter of the measured points they are independent of the stress. On the other hand the eo and e1 parameters have a linear stress dependence with the slopes (see also above) -0.25 and -014 J/molMPa for eo and e1, respectively. Dividing these by the value of s (=1.26 J/Kmol [18]) the elastic energy contribution to the slope of the start and finish temperatures (see relations (18)) will be - 0.20 and - 0.11K/MPa, respectively. Thus the differences in the slopes of the start and finish temperatures and the equilibrium transformation temperature are caused by the stress dependence of the derivative of the elastic energy contribution.

Finally it is worth mentioning that since both the stress dependence of To() and the elastic terms can be relatively well fited by straight lines, it is not surprising that in the literature frequently a linear relation is found for the stress dependence of the start and finish temperatures.

#### 3.5.2. Temperature dependence of the start and finish stresses [24]

In many papers about the relations between the start/finish stresses and the test temperature, T, in martensitic transformations of shape memory alloys it is assumed that e.g. the temperature dependence is the same as that of the o(T) function (o is the equilibrium transformation stain). As we have seen the linearity of this (or the To() relation) Clausius-Clapeyron-type relation would be fulfilled only if the transformation strain, tr, would be constant. Furthermore, it was illustrated in the previous section that relations between the start and finish temperatures versus stresses can contain stress dependent elastic and dissipative energy contributions. Thus even if these relations are approximately linear their slopes can be different from each other and from the slope of the To() function. The situation is very similar when one considers the o(T) as well as temperature dependence of the start and finish stresses.

In practice Ms and As are the most important parameters in thermomechanical treatments. Let us consider isothermal uniaxial loading tests carried out at temperatures T>Af. In this case Ms means the critical stress for the formation of stress induced martensite variants. In order to get expression for Ms(T) let us take the first relations of (18) (at =0) and (19) and make the use of (11) [24]:

σMs(T)=(Δs/Vεtr(σo(T)))[TMs(0)]+[1/Vεtr(σMs)][do(σMs)+eo(σMs)][do(0)+eo(0)][1/Vεtr(σo(T)].                      E28

Note that in the relations used in obtaining (28) the transformation strain and the transformed fraction derivatives of the dissipative and elastic terms were considered stress dependent. It can be seen that relation (28) will have the form usually found in the literature (see e.g. [10,27]) only if the sum of the last two second terms is zero and, even in this case, it will have a linear temperature dependence only if tr(o(T)) is constant. Similar relations can be obtained for the other start and finish stresses. In the case of Mf the sum of d1 and e1 appears and in the second term they should be taken at Mf, while for Af and As the eo-do as well as e1-d1 differences will be present. For example;

σAs(T) =(Δs/Vεtr(σo(T)))[TAs(0)]+[1/Vεtr(σAs)][e1(σAs)d1(sAs)][e1(0)d1(0)][1/Vεtr(σo(T)]].E29

One can recognize from (28) or (29) that interestingly if the contributions from the elastic and dissipative contributions are neglected the slopes of all start and finish stresses versus temperature have the same value (or have the same curvature).

Now the analysis of the experimental data obtained in single crystalline CuAl(11.5wt%)Ni(5.0wt%) alloys (/’ transformation) resulted in the following results [24]. First it is interesting to recognize a correlation between the stress and temperature dependence of tr: it can be seen from Figure 4a that e.g. at 373 K the martensite start stress is about 30 MPa and on the curve shown in Figure 3b this leads to about 4% tr value, which is approximately the same as was observed at this temperature ((see Figure 4b). Thus the transformation strain has indirect temperature dependence and it is the result of its -dependence. It is easy to understand the above indirect temperature dependence: since in expression (2) the elastic and thermal terms play equivalent roles with opposite sings in the thermoelastic balance [8,9] at higher temperatures higher stress is necessary to start the transformation and the martensite structure formed will be more oriented at this higher temperature: and thus tr will be larger.

Next, let us see whether the slopes of the start and finish stresses versus temperature are the same or not. It can be seen in Figure 23 (on the right) that the functions can be approximated by straight lines and Table 1 contains their slopes. However, while the slopes of Ms(T) and Af(T) as well as Mf(T) and As(T) are the same the slopes of these two groups differ from each other more than the estimated error (about 0.05 MPa/K [18]).

In (28) and (29) both do and d1 terms has a very moderate temperature dependence with the same slopes of (Figure 18) -0.028J/molK (leading to a small contribution to the slope of the temperature dependence of the start/finish temperatures as -0.064MPa/K) while eo(Ms(T)) depends on temperature (see Figure 23: eo/T=-0.50 J/molK, e1/T=-0.18 J/molK [18, 24]). Furthermore the tr(o(T)) and tr(Ms(T)) functions should be considered in the temperature interval 373-425K (Figures 23 and 4b) i.e., as an average value, one can take tr(o(T))tr(Ms(T))0.055. Thus the terms containing 1/Vtr will be approximately constant 1/Vtr 2.3x106 mol/m3 (a bit larger than the value belonging to trmax: 2.1x106 mol/m3, V=7.9x10-6m3/mol [18]).

Thus, one can estimate the contributions of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd terms in (28) and (29) to the slope of Ms and As vs. T functions (Table 1). The slope of the third term is 0 (tr(o(T))tr(Ms(T))const.) and from the second term the elastic term gives determining contribution to the slope. This also explains why the slopes of Ms and Af as well as Mf and As are similar, because they contain the different temperature derivatives of eo and e1, respectively.

### Table 1.

Experimental and estimated values of the slopes of the start and finish stresses versus T [24].

It can be seen from Table 1 that taking all the contributions into account the agreement between the estimated and experimental values is very good.

Finally a comment, similar to that given at the end of Section 2.5.1., can be made here too: since both the o(T) and the temperature dependence of the elastic terms (giving the determining contribution to the T dependence) can be well approximated by straight lines, the linear relations between the start and finish stresses and the test temperature can be frequently linear.

### 3.6. Effect of cycling

After the illustration of the usefulness of the above model in the calculation of the elastic and dissipative energy contributions from hysteresis loops of thermal and mechanical cycling in this section the results on the effect of number of the above cycles on the energy contributions will be summarized.

In [17] the effect of thermal and mechanical cycling on /’ phase transformation in CuAl(11.5W%)Ni(5.0W%) single crystalline shape memory alloy was studied. The σ and ξ-T hysteresis loops were investigated after different numbers of thermal and mechanical cycles. The σ loops were determined at fixed temperature (373 K) and the ξ-T loop under zero stress was calculated from the DSC curves measured.

Figure 24 (left) shows the ξ -T loops, calculated from the DSC curves, after different numbers of cycles, N, and the N dependence of the start and finish temperatures (right). Figure 25 illustrates the N dependence of the start and finish stresses, while in Figures 26 and 27 the N dependence of the calculated dissipative and elastic energies are shown as calculated form the thermal and mechanical cycling.

From the results presented in Figures 24-27 the following conclusions can be drawn [17]:

1. Both the thermal and mechanical cycling causes some changes in the hysteresis loops: after a fast shift in the first few cycles the stress-strain and strain-temperature response stabilize.

2. In thermal cycling the elastic energy, E, as well as the dissipative energy, D (per one cycle), increases as well as decreases, respectively with increasing number of cycles, while in mechanical cycling there is an opposite tendency. These changes are inevitably related to the change in the martensite variant structure during cycling.

3. In thermal cycling, where self-accommodated martensite variant structure develops, with increasing numbers of N, due to some “learning process in nucleation of similar variants” at different places, the marensite variant structure stabilizes and interestingly in this process E increases (by about 2.5%) and D decreases (by about 50 %).

4. In mechanical cycling it is expected that the learning process can lead to an increased number of nucleation of preferentially oriented (according to the direction of the applied uniaxial stress) martensite variants. This decreased E and increased D by about 1 % and 6% respectively.

5. In general there are two energy dissipative processes [23]: the first is related to the frictional interfacial motion, while the second is due to the dissipation of the stored elastic energy when the coherency strains at the martensite/austenite interface relax. Assuming the first contribution independent of N, the increase/decrease of E can be accompanied by a decrease/increase in D, but for a deeper understanding detailed microscopic investigation of the variant structure and the interfaces, similarly as e.g. was done in [23], is necessary.

## 4. Conclusions

The analysis of extended experimental data obtained in poly- and single crystalline Cu based alloys provided the following main conclusions:

1. It has been illustrated that the transformation strain, tr, depends on both the uniaxial stress and temperature in measurements carried out in single crystalline samples at different constant stress and temperature values, respectively. In both functions the saturation values were the same corresponding to the maximal possible transformation strain, trmax, estimated for the case when a single crystal fully transforms to the most preferably oriented martensite. This behaviour was interpreted by the change of the martensite variant structure as the function of the parameter, , the volume fraction of the stress induced (single) variant martensite structure. In the tr = T + ( T) relation T and are the transformation strains when fully thermally induced multi variant structure forms (=0), as well as when the martensite consists of a fully ordered array of stress preferred variants (single variant state, =1), respectively. It has been illustrated that T can be either zero or can have a finite value (remanent strain) depending on the details of the variant structure (and thus on the prehistory of the sample).

2. The stress and temperature dependence of tr(or ) is reflected in deviations from the Clausius-Clapeyron-type relations. Indeed it was demonstrated that the equilibrium transformation temperature, To, was not a linear function of the stress in single crystalline alloys.

3. Using relations for the T and () loops ( is the transformed martensite volume fraction) the dependence of the derivatives of the elastic and dissipative energies, (e() and d()) could be determined. The integrals of these functions gave the elastic, E, and dissipative, D, energies per on cycle. Thus it was also possible to determine their dependence on the stress and temperature. Note that the or T dependence of the elastic energy can be calculated only exclusive of a constant term containing the product of the entropy and T(=0) (see eqs. (10), (13) and (16)). In the CuAl(17.9w%)Ni(2.6w%) single crystalline alloy, by the analysis of the peculiar shapes of the T loops even the determination of the equilibrium transformation temperature and its dependence was possible. It was also demonstrated that our procedure is self-consistent since e.g. at zero stress the D and E quantities were also calculated from independent measurements (DSC curves) and the results were in very good agreement with those values obtained form the integrals of the e() and d() functions.

4. It was shown that the stress and temperature dependence of tr(or ) is also reflected in the shape of the D(), D(T), E() and E(T) functions, since these terms should be plausibly dependent on the martensite variant structure developed.

5. It was illustrated that both the stress dependence of the start and finish temperatures as well as the temperature dependence of the start and finish stresses in general can be approximated by straight lines. This is due to the facts that the To(), o(T) functions, in a wider interval of their variables, can be linear as well as the elastic energy contributions (giving dominating contributions to the or T dependence) can also be fitted by a linear functions. On the other hand, the slopes of the start and finish parameters as well as the slopes of the To() or o(T) can be definitely different from each other.

It was shown that the number of thermal and mechanical cycling, N, has effected the values of E and D: in thermal cycling E increased, while D decreased with N. During mechanical cycling an opposite effect was observed.

### Acknowledgement

This work has been supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Found (OTKA) project No. K 84065 as well as by the TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0024 project which is co-financed by the European Union and the European Social Fund.

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