Effect of Alloying Elements on the Reactive Sintering Behaviour of NiTi Alloy

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NiTi alloy is usually prepared by casting and forming. As an innovative process, reactive sintering powder metallurgy is tested worldwide, aiming to prepare pure NiTi alloy easily from nickel and titanium powders. This process enables to prepare both porous and low-porosity alloy, depnding on the process conditions. However, the formation of NiTi phase in this process is always accompanied by the Ti2Ni phase, which is hard, brittle, less corrosion resistant and does not have the shape memory. In this work, various alloying elements (Al, Si, Mg, Fe, Nb, V) were added to Ni-Ti alloy in order to lower the amount of Ti2Ni phase or at least to minimize its undesirable effect on the alloy properties. The reactive sintering behaviour, phase composition and mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-X alloys were described.

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