The effect of plastic deformation and external load on the characteristics of shape-memory effects is studied for alloys based on titanium nickelide of nearly equiatomic composition. A nonmonotonic dependence of the characteristic temperatures of martensite transformations on the strain degree of deformation is obtained. This phenomenon is explained in relation to the stages of development of plastic deformation. Optimal loading and deformation conditions for obtaining maximum values of reversible deformation are determined.Alloys based on titanium nickelide, which exhibit the shape-memory effect and other unusual physicomechanical properties, are very sensitive to changes in the external structure of the material. Preliminary thermomechanical treatment allows one to purposely change the parameters of the shapememory effect and the physicomechanical properties of the alloys. Although this problem has been extensively studied in the literature [1-6], there has been no complex investigation of the effects of external stresses and temperature on alloys based on titanium nickefide and the effect of stresses and deformation on the parameters of the shape-memory effect and the characteristic temperatures of martensite transformations (MT) in these alloys. The present paper is devoted to this problem.1. Materials and Experimental Procedure. The alloys studied were produced from titanium iodide and NO-graded nickel in an arc-discharge furnace. The alloys had the same compositions as TN-10 and TN-20 alloys [7]. The alloys were shaped into a wire of diameter 1.5 ram by hot extrusion through dies. After chemical treatment by etching, the specimens were held in vacuum (10 -5 Pa) at 1080 K for 1 h and cooled with the furnace. The temperatures of MT were determined from the variation of the electrical resistance with temperature and x-ray structural analysis data. Curves of electrical resistance were measured by the conventional potentiometric four-point method. X-ray structural studies were performed on a DRON-2 apparatus. The parameters of the shape-memory effect were studied by measuring macrostraln during stretching under load on an "Instron" device in the cycle loading-cooling-heating. Wire specimens of the alloys 60 mm long and 1 mm in diameter were loaded at various temperatures: 77, 223, 323, 373, 423, and 473 K. The external loads corresponded to stresses of 40, 120, and 230 MPa. The influence of prestrain on the shape-memory effect was also studied after rolling of specimens 60 mm long with a square cross section 1 mm 2. The specimens were rolled in one pass at room temperature with an average reduction of 4-6% per pass.2. Crystal Structure and MT in the Alloys. In the high-temperature region, the alloys are in the one-phase state: the Ti2Ni phase with the B2 structure. The presence of a minor portion of the Ti2Ni phase in the form of highly disperse inclusions has little effect on the characteristics of the shape-memory effect. As the temperature decreases from 473 K, TN-20 alloy undergoes the martensite transformat...