Mechanical Spectroscopy of Hyperstabilized Martensites

Abstract

The internal friction of the hyperstabilized martensite demonstrates very low values, both above and below the nominal martensitic transformation temperature, due to a pronounced pinning effect. Over a wide temperature range it is comparable with the level of damping in the parent phase. A study of the temperature dependence of the non-linear ultrasonic internal friction and its strain amplitude hysteresis indicates that the diffusion, assisted by dislocations/interfaces, is quite pronounced and in Ni-Fe-Ga and Cu-Al-Be alloys it operates at temperatures around 20 K. The renucleation of the lamellar parent phase during the reverse martensitic transformation close to 600 K is accompanied by an internal friction peak which demonstrates a substantial transitory contribution. After renucleation of the parent phase the samples recover a conventional martensitic transformation with the internal friction level in the martensite comparable to the one in non-stabilized samples. Observations of a relaxation peak in the parent phase of different alloys for temperatures just below the renucleation stage of the reverse transformation point to the essential role of diffusion in the nucleation of the parent phase in hyperstabilized martensites.