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The regularities of the change in inelastic strain in coarse-grained samples of the Ti49.3Ni50.7 (at%) alloy are studied when the samples are given torsional strain in the state of the high-temperature B2 phase. During cooling and heating, the investigated samples underwent the B2-B19′ martensite transformation (MT); the temperature of the end of the reverse MT was Af = 273 K. It was found that at the temperature of isothermal cycles ”loading-unloading” Af + 8 K, when the specimen is assigned a strain of 4%, the effect of superelasticity is observed. With an increase in the torsional strain, the shape memory effect is clearly manifested. It is assumed that the stabilization of the В19′ phase in unloaded samples is due to the appearance of dislocations during deformation due to high internal stresses at the interphase boundaries of the В2 phase and the martensite phase during MT. The appearance of dislocations during the loading of samples near the temperatures of forward and reverse MT can also be facilitated by the “softening” of the elastic moduli of the alloy in this temperature range. At a test temperature above Af + 26 K, the superelasticity effect dominates in the studied samples.

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The experimental results regarding the effect of warm (573 K) abc pressing with an increase in the specified true strain, e, up to 9.55, on the microstructure and crystal structure defects (dislocations, vacancies) of the Ti49.8Ni50.2 (at %) alloy are presented. It is shown that all samples (regardless of e) have a two-level microstructure. The grains–subgrains of the submicrocrystalline scale level are in the volumes of large grains. The average sizes of both large grains and subgrain grains decrease with increasing e to 9.55 (from 27 to 12 µm and from 0.36 to 0.13 µm, respectively). All samples had a two-phase state (rhombohedral R and monoclinic B19’ martensitic phases) at 295 K. The full-profile analysis of X-ray reflections of the B2 phase obtained at 393 K shows that the dislocation density increases from 1014 m−2 to 1015 m−2 after pressing with e = 1.84 and reaches 2·1015 m−2 when e increases to 9.55. It has been established by positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy that dislocations are the main type of defects in initial samples and the only type of defects in samples after abc pressing. The lifetime of positrons trapped by dislocations is 166 ps, and the intensity of this component increases from 83% in the initial samples to 99.4% after pressing with e = 9.55. The initial samples contain a component with a positron lifetime of 192 ps (intensity 16.4%), which corresponds to the presence of monovacancies in the nickel sublattice of the B2 phase (concentration ≈10−5). This component is absent in the positron lifetime spectra in the samples after pressing. The results of the analysis of the Doppler broadening spectroscopy correlate with the data obtained by the positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy.