PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Novák, Pavel
AU  - Marek, Ivo
AU  - Dvořák, Petr
AU  - Veselý, Tomáš
AU  - Vojtěch, Vladimír
AU  - Školáková, Andrea
AU  - Bernatiková, Adriana
TI  - Effect of Nickel Particle Size on Eactive Sintering Production of Niti Shape Memory Alloy
DP  - 2016 Aug 1
TA  - Manufacturing Technology Journal
PG  - 754--757
VI  - 16
IP  - 4
AID - 10.21062/ujep/x.2016/a/1213-2489/MT/16/4/754
IS  - 12132489
AB  - This work is focused on the description of the influence of the particle size of nickel on the synthesis of NiTi shape memory alloy by reactive sintering with high heating rate (300 °C.min-1). It was found that coarse nickel powders undergo only a limited thermally-activated reaction. On the other hand, too fine powders support the low-temperature (500-800 °C) diffusional formation of Ni-Ti intermetallics which could then suppress the rapid thermally-activated reaction. The optimum powder fraction of nickel to obtain the material with the lowest porosity and fraction of undesirable Ti2Ni phase is 25-45 μm.