Prof. Dr. Osman ADIGUZEL

Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Title: Shape Reversibility and Structural Reactions in Shape Memory Alloys

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Biography

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67, following academic life of 45 years.

He published over 80 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last six years (2014 - 2019) over 60 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries.

Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches over 120 Virtual/Webinar Conferences, due to the coronavirus outbreak in three year of his retirement, 2020 and 2022.

Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M. Sc theses. He is also technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of   significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel:  Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction and crystallography.

Research Interest

A series of alloy materials take place in a class of advanced smart materials with the stimulus response to external effect. Shape memory alloys take place in this class by exhibiting a peculiar property called shape memory effect, with the chemical compositions in the ?- phase field in phase diagrams. This phenomenon is characterized by the recoverability of two certain shapes of material in reversible way at different conditions. This phenomenon is initiated with thermomechanical processes on cooling and deformation and performed thermally in a temperature interval on heating and cooling, with which shape of materials cycles between original and deformed shapes in reversible way. Therefore, this behavior is called thermoelasticity. This is plastic deformation; the strain energy is stored in the material and releases upon heating by recovering the original shape. This phenomenon is result of structural reactions, thermally and stress induced martensitic transformations. Thermal induced martensitic transformation occurs on cooling with cooperative movements of atoms in <110 > -type directions on the {110} - type planes of austenite matric, along with the lattice twinning reaction, and ordered parent phase structures turn into the twinned martensite structures. Twinned structures turn into the detwinned structures by means of stress induced martensitic transformation with deformation in the martensitic condition.

These alloys exhibit another property, called superelasticity, which is performed with stressing and releasing the material in elasticity limit at a constant temperature in parent phase region, and shape recovery is performed instantly and simultaneously upon releasing the applied stress, by exhibiting elastic material behavior.  Stress-strain profile is nonlinear in stress-strain diagram, also stressing and releasing paths are different, and hysteresis loops refers to energy dissipation. Superelasticity is also result of stress induced martensitic transformation and ordered parent phase structure turns into the detwinned martensite structure with stressing.

Copper based alloys exhibit this property in metastable ?-phase region, which has bcc-based structures at high temperature parent phase field.  Lattice invariant shear and twinning is not uniform in these alloys and gives rise to the formation of complex layered structures. These structures can be described by different unit cells as 3R, 9R or 18R depending on the stacking sequences.

In the present contribution, x-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies were carried out on copper based CuAlMn and CuZnAl alloys. X-ray diffraction profiles and electron diffraction patterns exhibit super lattice reflections. X-ray diffractograms taken in a long-time interval show that diffraction angles and peak intensities change with aging duration at room temperature.  This result refers to the rearrangement of atoms in diffusive manner.

Keywords: Shape memory effect, martensitic transformation, thermoelasticity, superelasticity, twinning, detwinning.