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Abstract
Nickel–titanium alloys are the most widely used shape memory alloys due to their outstanding shape memory effect and superelasticity. Additive manufacturing has recently emerged in the fabrication of shape memory alloy but despite substantial advances in powder-based techniques, less attention has been focused on wire-based additive manufacturing. This work reports on the preliminary results for the process-related microstructural and phase transformation changes of Ni-rich nickel–titanium alloy additively manufactured by wire-based electron beam freeform fabrication. To study the feasibility of the process, a simple 10-layer stack structure was successfully built and characterized, exhibiting columnar grains and achieving one-step reversible martensitic–austenitic transformation, thus showing the potential of this additive manufacturing technique for processing shape memory alloys.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 3 Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- electron beam freeform fabrication
- NiTi
- Nitinol
- Shape memory alloys
- superelasticity
- wire based electron beam additive manufacturing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Mechanical Engineering
Fields of Expertise
- Advanced Materials Science
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