1. Thermo-magnetic characterization of phase transitions in a Ni-Mn-In metamagnetic shape memory alloy
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F J Romero, José María Martín-Olalla, Eduard Vives, J.S. Blázquez, D.E. Soto-Parra, Antoni Planes, María Carmen Gallardo, Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, FQM-130, European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), and Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología (CICYT). España
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Austenite ,heat capacity ,Phase transition ,Condensed Matter - Materials Science ,Materials science ,Mechanical Engineering ,Enthalpy ,Metals and Alloys ,Thermodynamics ,Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Shape-memory alloy ,magnetization ,Power law ,Heat capacity ,metals and alloys ,Magnetization ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Mechanics of Materials ,kinetics ,Latent heat ,Materials Chemistry ,entropy - Abstract
The partially overlapped ferroelastic/martensitic and para-ferromagnetic phase transitions of a Ni$_{50.53}$Mn${33.65}$In$_{15.82}$ metamagnetic shape memory alloy have been studied from calorimetric, magnetic and acoustic emission measurement. We have taken advantage of the existence of thermal hysteresis of the first order ferroelastic/martensitic phase transition ($\sim2.5$K) to discriminate the latent heat contribution $\Delta$Ht = 7.21(15) kJ/kg and the specific heat contribution $\Delta$Hc = 216(1) J/kg to the total excess enthalpy of the phase transition. The specific heat was found to follow a step-like behavior at this phase transition. The intermittent dynamics of the ferroelastic/martensitic transition has been characterized as a series of avalanches detected both from acoustic emission and calorimetric measurements. The energy distribution of these avalanche events was found to follow a power law with a characteristic energy exponent $\epsilon\sim2$ which is in agreement with the expected value for a system undergoing a symmetry change from cubic to monoclinic. Finally, the critical behavior of the para-ferromagnetic austenite phase transition that takes place at $\sim 311$K has been studied from the behavior of the specific heat. A critical exponent $\alpha\sim0.09$ has been obtained, which has been shown to be in agreement with previous values reported for Ni-Mn-Ga alloys but different from the critical divergence reported for pure Ni., Comment: 18 pages, 11 figures
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- 2021