Acoustic Emission and Shape Memory Effect in the Martensitic Transformation

Abstract

Acoustic emission signals are known to exhibit a high degree of reproducibility in time and show correlations with the growth and shrinkage of martensite domains when athermal martensites are subjected to repeated thermal cycling in a restricted temperature range. We show that a recently introduced two dimensional model for the martensitic transformation mimics these features. We also show that these features are related to the shape-memory effect where near full reversal of morphological features are seen under these thermal cycling conditions.