ZHAO Wei-ren, LI Jian-liang, QI Yan, ZHANG Yang-huan, WANG Xin-lin, YU Yuan-jun
钢铁研究学报(英文版). 2004, 11(6): 52-56.
The characteristics of the strains induced by transformation and magnetic field in as-cast Ni-Mn-Ga alloy were systematically investigated. It is found that internal stress and texture introduced during casting bring the anisotropy of temperature-induced strains. However,no anisotropy of field-induced strains is induced,and the internal stress and the texture modulate only the temperature dependence of field-induced strains. Large retardance of field-induced strains was observed,which indicates the rearrangement of martensitic variants as a competition process between the stress energy and Zeeman energy. The non-continuous field dependence of strain indicates the unstable microstructure during martensitic transformation.