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

Table 2

Transformation temperature of Cu-Al-Ni SMA with and without Ta additions.

Alloy	Transformation temperatures (°C)
	Cu-Al-Ni	207	235	226	196.25
Cu-Al-Ni-1.0 wt.% Ta	225.8	267.57	263	211.8
Cu-Al-Ni-2.0 wt.% Ta	242.7	277.4	265.6	237.9
Cu-Al-Ni-3.0 wt.% Ta	240.5	265.6	256.8	229