Effect of Annealing in Magnetic Field on Ferromagnetic Nanoparticle Formation in Cu-Al-Mn Alloy with Induced Martensite Transformation.

Anatoliy Titenko,Lesya Demchenko

doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1453-2

Abstract

The paper considers the influence of aging of high-temperature phase on subsequent martensitic transformation in Cu-Al-Mn alloy. The morphology of behavior of martensitic transformation as a result of alloy aging under annealing in a constant magnetic field with different sample orientation relatively to the field direction and without field was studied for direct control of the processes of martensite induction at cooling. Temperature dependences of electrical resistance, magnetic susceptibility, and magnetization, as well as field dependences of magnetization, and phase composition were found. The tendency to the oriented growth of precipitated ferromagnetic phase nanoparticles in a direction of applied field and to an increase of their volume fraction under thermal magnetic treatment of material that favors a reversibility of induced martensitic transformation is observed.

Highlights

Phase transformations of martensitic type are inherent to a wide class of materials and alloys, which are characterized by structural features that determine peculiarities of their formation and physical properties
The subsequent annealing leads to the Cu-Al-Mn alloy aging accompanying by precipitation of dispersed particles of ferromagnetic β3-phase of Cu2AlMn composition in β1matrix [15, 16]
After annealing without magnetic field (Fig. 2b), there are no reflections observed from β3-phase on diffraction patterns that can be explained by a low percentage of this phase in the alloy or/and its high dispersed state

Summary

Introduction

Phase transformations of martensitic type are inherent to a wide class of materials and alloys, which are characterized by structural features that determine peculiarities of their formation and physical properties. A mechanism of the behavior of martensitic transformation (MT), occurring in alloy after decomposition of solid solutions with precipitation of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in the nonferromagnetic matrix, is not less attractive. Such behavior is typical for Cu-Co, Cu-Ni-Fe, Cu-Ni-Co, and Ni-Mn alloys. In ternary Cu-Al-Mn Heusler alloy, MT can take place [1] and an appearance of long-range ferromagnetic order in a system of superparamagnetic As it has been established by neutron diffraction measurements [6] that only the Mn atoms possess a magnetic moment, Winkler et al [7] have shown that the chemical order determines the magnetic behavior of the alloys because it establishes the distances between Mn atom pairs. 35 % of Mn atoms are involved in the ferromagnetic Cu2MnAl phase formation while others are dissolved in the nonmagnetic matrix [8]

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