EP0088604A2 - Alliage à mémoire nickel-titane-cuivre - Google Patents

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EP0088604A2
EP0088604A2 EP83301168A EP83301168A EP0088604A2 EP 0088604 A2 EP0088604 A2 EP 0088604A2 EP 83301168 A EP83301168 A EP 83301168A EP 83301168 A EP83301168 A EP 83301168A EP 0088604 A2 EP0088604 A2 EP 0088604A2
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  • This invention relates to shape memory alloys consisting essentially of nickel, titanium, and copper.
  • Alloys which exhibit the shape memory effect are now well-known, and include a number of alloys comprising nickel and titanium. See, e.g., U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,174,851; 3,351,463; and 3,753,700.
  • a wide variety of useful articles, such as electrical connectors, actuators, and pipe couplings can be made from such alloys. See e.g. U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,740,839; 4,035,077; and 4,198,081.
  • Shape memory alloys also find use in switches, such as are disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,205,293, and actuators, etc.
  • As temperature should be above ambient, so that the alloy element'will remain in its martensitic state unless heated either externally or by the passage of an electric current through it.
  • the desired M 50 will generally be above 0°C for an As above, say, 20°C.
  • shape memory alloy element may be subject to repeated cycling between the austenitic and martensitic states under load
  • shape memory "fatigue” may be a problem.
  • shape memory alloys are unstable in the range of 100°C to 500°C if the titanium content is below 49.9 atomic percent (See Wasilewski et al., Met. Trans., v. 2, pp. 229-38 (1971).).
  • the instability manifests itself as a change (generally an increase) in M s , the temperature at which the austenite to martensite transition begins, between the annealed alloy and the same alloy which has been further tempered.
  • Annealing means heating to a sufficiently high temperature and holding at that temperature long enough to give a uniform, stress-free condition, followed by sufficiently rapid cooling to maintain that condition. Temperatures around 900°C for about 10 minutes are generally sufficient for annealing, and air cooling is generally sufficiently rapid, though quenching in water is necessary for some of the low Ti compositions.
  • Tempering here means holding at an intermediate temperature for a suitably long period (such as a few hours at 200 - 400°C). The instability thus makes the low titanium alloys disadvantageous for shape memory applications, where a combination of high yield strength and reproducible M S is desired.
  • this invention provides a shape memory alloy consisting essentially of nickel, titanium and copper within an area defined on a nickel, titanium, and copper ternary phase diagram by a quadrilaterial with its first vertex at 42 atomic percent nickel, 49.5 atomic percent titanium, and 8.5 atomic percent copper; its second vertex at 35.5 atomic percent nickel, 49.5 atomic percent titanium, and 15 atomic percent copper; its third vertex at 41 atomic percent nickel, 44 atomic percent titanium, and 15 atomic percent copper, and its fourth vertex at 44.25 atomic percent nickel, 47.25 atomic percent titanium, and 8.5 atomic percent copper.
  • the alloys according to the invention advantageously display the properties of high strength and an M 50 (138 MPa)(20 ksi) temperature above 0"C. The alloys also display unexpectedly good temper stability, workability and machinability.
  • the shape memory alloy consists essentially of from 40.5 to 41.5 atomic percent nickel, from 48.5 to 49.5 atomic percent titanium and from 9.5 to 10.5 atomic percent copper.
  • Shape memory alloys according to the invention may conveniently be produced by the methods described in. for example, U.S. Pats. No. 3,753,700 and 4,144,057.
  • the following example illustrates the method of preparation and testing of samples of memory alloys.
  • the resulting ingots were hot swaged and hot rolled in air at approximately 850°C to produce strip of approximately 0.5 mm (0.025 ins) thickness. After de-scaling, samples were cut from the strip and vacuum annealed at 900°C.
  • the annealed samples were cooled and re-heated while the change in resistance was measured. From the resistance-temperature plot, the temperature at which the martensitic transformation was complete, the M f temperature, was determined. The transformation temperature of each alloy was determined as the temperature at which of the total deformation had occurred under MPa (20 ksi) load, referred to as the M 50 (138 MPa)(20 ksi) temperature.
  • composition of the alloy of this invention can be described by reference to an area on a nickel, titanium, and copper ternary composition diagram.
  • the general area of the alloy on the composition diagram is shown by the small triangle in Figure 1. This area of the composition diagram is enlarged and shown in Figure 2.
  • the compositions at the points, A, B, C, and D, are shown in Table II below.
  • the lines AB and BC correspond approximately to the workability limit these alloys, while the lines C D and DA correspond approximatelx to an M 50 (133 KPa)(40 ksi) of 0°C.
  • the particularly preferred alloys of this invention will lie nearer line AB (the high titanium line) of the quadrilateral ABCD of Figure 2.
  • the alloys of this invention also exhibit a greater resistance to shape memory fatigue than binary alloys.
  • a copper alloy showed less than half the loss of recoverability of an equivalently processed binary after 1000 cycles of fatigue testing at about 276 MPa (40 ksi) load.
  • alloys according to the invention may be manufactured from their components (or appropriate master alloys) by other methods suitable for dealing with high-titanium alloys.
  • the details of these methods, and the precautions necessary to exclude oxygen and nitrogen either by melting in an inert atmosphere or in vacuum, are well known to those skilled in the art and are not repeated here.
  • Alloys obtained by these methods and using the materials described will contain small quanities of other elements, including oxygen and nitrogen in total amounts from about 0.05 to 0.2 percent.
  • the effect of these materials is generally to reduce the martensitic transformation temperature of the alloys.
  • the alloys of this invention possess good temper stability, are hot-workable, and are free-machining; in contrast to prior art alloys. They are also capable of possessing shape memory, and have a M 50 (138 MPa) (20 ksi) temperature above 0°C.

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EP83301168A 1982-03-05 1983-03-04 Alliage à mémoire nickel-titane-cuivre Expired EP0088604B1 (fr)

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