Analysis of Compositional Modification of Commercial Aluminum Bronzes to Obtain Functional Shape Memory Properties
AUTOR(ES)
Araujo, Aylanna Priscila Marques de, Simões, Jackson de Brito, Araújo, Carlos José de
FONTE
Mat. Res.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
17/08/2017
RESUMO
In copper-based shape memory alloys (SMAs), some exceptional phenomena, such as the shape memory effect (SME) or superelasticity (SE), are observable. However, commercial aluminum bronzes, Cu3Al-based alloys, do not present these functional properties (SME and/or SE) in their original state. Thus, since one of the main copper-based SMA systems is the Cu-Al-Ni alloy, this paper aims to analyze the modification of these commercial aluminum bronzes to SMA by the addition small amounts of Cu, Al and/or Ni. These modified bronzes were reprocessed by induction melting and injected by centrifugation into a ceramic coating mold. The modifications were made to determine the nominal composition for a Cu-13,0Al-4,0Ni (%wt) SMA. The effectiveness of the modifications was verified by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermal analysis. All modified Cu-Al-Ni bronzes presented DSC peaks of the thermoelastic martensitic phase transformation, showing that SMA behavior was achieved, while the non-modified bronzes revealed no transformation. These results were supported by Vickers hardness (HV), X-ray diffraction (XRD), semi quantitative composition by EDS analysis and optical microscopy.
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