Effect of Ta Additions on the Microstructure, Damping, and Shape Memory Behaviour of Prealloyed Cu-Al-Ni Shape Memory Alloys

Figure 6

Potentiodynamic polarization curves of specimens in 3 wt.% NaCl solution. (a) black curve, Cu-Al-Ni and Cu-Al-Ni-Ta SMAs with various Ta content: (b) red curve, 1.0, (c) blue curve, 2.0, and (d) green curve, 3.0 wt.%.