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Issue ESOMAT 2009
2009
Article Number 02029
Number of page(s) 5
Section Principles, Simulations, Materials: Background
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/esomat/200902029
Published online 01 September 2009

ESOMAT 2009, 02029 (2009)
DOI: 10.1051/esomat/200902029

Pinning of the martensitic microstructures by dislocations in Cu74.08Al23.13Be2.79

H. Idrissi1, D. Schryvers1, E.K.H. Salje2, H. Zhang2, M.A. Carpenter2 and X. Moya3

1  EMAT, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
2  Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
3  Department of Material Sciences, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

nick.schryvers@ua.ac.be

Published online: 1 September 2009

Abstract
A single crystal of Cu74.08Al23.13Be2.79 undergoes a martensitic phase transition at 246K and 232K under heating and cooling, respectively. Surprisingly, the martensite phase is elastically much harder than the austenite phase showing that interfaces between various crystallographic variants are strongly pinned and can not be moved by external stress while the phase boundary between the austenite and martensite regions in the sample remains mobile. This unusual behavior was revealed by Dynamical Mechanical Analysis and Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy. Transmission Electron Microscopy shows that the pinning is generated by dislocations, which are inherited from the austenite phase. Such dislocations can hinder the movement of stacking faults in the 18R martensite structure or twin boundaries between martensite variants.



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