Phenomenological representation of mechanical spectroscopy of high damping MnCuNiFe alloy

ABSTRACT

MnCuNiFe damping alloy was prepared to characterise the dynamic mechanical behaviour under varied frequency by employing dynamic mechanical analyzer, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The relationship of characteristic temperatures is disentangled by antiferromagnetic transition (AFT), the strain glass transition and reverse martensitic transformation. It is reported that although only f.c.c. (γ) phase exists in the alloy under solution state, twins are induced by AFT. The aged alloy shows an elevated damping capacity while the maximum internal friction decreases from 0.1 to 10 Hz and then increases to 150 Hz, demonstrating the system resonant frequency of about 10 Hz under the vibration mode of double cantilever beam.

KEYWORDS:

• Internal friction
• resonant frequency
• twin damping
• dislocation damping
• reverse martensitic transformation
• magnetic transition

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ORCID

P. G. Ji http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8695-9180