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Microstructure and texture evolution in laser Shock Peened martensitic NiTi shape memory alloy

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Junfeng Xiao, Yandong Jing

The Laser Shock Peening (LSP) is commonly used to strengthen the surface of materials. However, the microstructures after LSP impact are complex due to the intense forces involved. In this study, we explore how martensitic microstructures evolve in a half ...

2025

Formation mechanism and microstructural characteristics of a body-centered cubic phase in 3D printed 316L–CuCrZr multi-material structures, combining laser powder bed fusion with foils

Cyril Cayron, Jamasp Jhabvala, Roland Logé

Additive manufacturing of 316L/CuCrZr multi-material metallic structures has recently attracted significant attention, due to the ideal combination of structural and thermal/electrical properties. In this work, a unique multi-phase microstructure was produ ...

2025

Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshell

Cyril Cayron, Arthur Brian Aebersold, Philippe Gillet, Rongrong Cai

Native metals of igneous origin are recognized as one of the distinctive features of basalts from the Moon. Our study demonstrates that the tiny Fe-Ni metal blebs nucleated from lunar magma exhibit unanticipated, nutshell-like, crystallographic microstruct ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

The role of interaction work in martensite deformation

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Junfeng Xiao

This study elucidates the evolution of martensite deformation via Interaction Work (IW). The IW is the mechanical work done by external loading, assisting deformation by competing with the energy barrier. This interplay establishes the maximum IW (IWmax) c ...

2025

Toward Architected Microstructures Using Advanced Laser Beam Shaping in Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Ti-6al-4v

Mathijs Pieter van der Meer, Eric Boillat, Cyril Cayron, Jamasp Jhabvala, Roland Logé, Junfeng Xiao

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) stations mostly use lasers with a Gaussian beam intensity distribution, as it has advantages like small divergence and high ability to be focused. This distribution creates significant thermal gradients leading to high coolin ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Microstructures and outstanding mechanical properties of the 18 carat Au–Ti alloy after age-hardening

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé

Watchmakers and jewellers are looking for novel 18 carat (ct) gold alloys (75 wt% Au) that combine superior hardness (≥ 300 HV) and scratch resistance with the excellent ductility and machinability characteristic of traditional 18 ct Au–Cu–Ag alloys. The A ...

2025

Tailoring mechanical properties and microstructures in laser powder bed fusion of 316 L stainless steel through aluminium alloying and combined ex-situ and in-situ heat treatments

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a bottom-up manufacturing technique using a high-energy laser to selectively melt metallic alloys, enabling the creation of complex microstructures. While rapid cooling rates and process stochasticity can lead to unpredict ...

2025

Hard-sphere model of the B2 → B19' phase transformation, and its application to predict the B19' structure in NiTi alloys and the B19 structures in other binary alloys

Cyril Cayron

The pseudoelastic and pseudoplastic properties of NiTi alloys result from the closeness of the structures between the B2 cubic austenite and the B19' monoclinic martensite, and from the facility to transform one into each other. The paths followed by the a ...

Elsevier BV2024

Monitoring of laser-induced fast recrystallization in SS-316L through synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Milad Hamidi Nasab

Laser based heat treatments have multiple applications for local tuning of microstructures. They are particularly relevant in the context of laser-based additive manufacturing (LAM), in order to relieve residual stresses or introduce equiaxed structures th ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Zircon microstructures record high temperature and pressure conditions during impact melt evolution at the West Clearwater Lake impact structure, Canada

Cyril Cayron

Theoretical predictions had suggested that impact melts can experience temperatures far exceeding those in endogenous igneous settings. Direct evidence of the hottest temperatures recorded in impactites was observed recently at the Mistastin Lake impact st ...

2024

Simple shear extrusion versus equal channel angular pressing: A comparative study on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Mg alloy

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Aryan Rezaei Rad

Two severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques of simple shear extrusion (SSE) and equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) were employed to process an extruded Mg -6Gd -3Y -1.5Ag (wt%) alloy at 553 K for 1, 2, 4 and 6 passes. The microstructural evolutions ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2023

Laser powder-bed fusion of a high entropy alloy with outstanding intrinsic mechanical properties

Cyril Cayron, Jamasp Jhabvala, Václav Pejchal, Roland Logé, Navid Sohrabi

In the past few years, laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) of high entropy alloys (HEAs) has gained significant interest. We investigated a HEA (PdPtRhIrCuNi) elaborated by LPBF, and studied its microstructure and mechanical properties. This alloy has potential ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Response of magnesium microcrystals to c-axis compression and contraction loadings at low and high strain rates

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé

In this work, 99.999% pure magnesium (Mg) single microcrystals have been deformed in [0001] compression (c-axis compression) and [10 (1) over bar0] tension (c-axis contraction) conditions at room temperature and under loading rates ranging from 5 x 10(-4) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

In-situ selective laser heat treatment for microstructural control of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Milad Hamidi Nasab

As-built Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) Ti-6Al-4V typically exhibits a fully acicular alpha '-martensite microstructure, and requires post-process heat treatment in order to decompose the martensite and achieve sufficient ductility. In the present study, w ...

Elsevier2023

EBSD study of variant reorientation, texture, and twin formation in a martensitic NiTi alloy deformed in compression

Mathijs Pieter van der Meer, Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Junfeng Xiao

Martensitic crystallography plays a vital role in the texture evolution and mechanical properties in Nickel-Titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys when subjected to deformation. However, their microstructural changes during deformation are not well known and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Micro-addition of Fe in highly alloyed Cu-Ti alloys to improve both formability and strength

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Baptiste Thomas Jean Rouxel

Cu-Be alloys provide excellent electrical and mechanical properties, but present serious health hazards during manufacturing. Among alternative alloys, the Cu-Ti system has the highest yield strength; however, Ti cannot be easily solutionized at concentrat ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Thermally controlled growth of photoactive FAPbI(3) films for highly stable perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Cyril Cayron, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer

We employ flash infrared annealing to investigate the phase transition of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI(3)) thin films for their solar cell applications. Measuring the enthalpy changes of the FAPbI(3) composition at different heating rates allows us ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

An investigation on reorientation and textural evolution in a martensitic NiTi rolled sheet using EBSD

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Junfeng Xiao

Variant reorientation is a ubiquitous phenomenon in shape memory alloys and has a great influence on their texture and mechanical response. In the present study, a martensitic NiTi rolled sheet is investigated by the electron backscattering diffraction (EB ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Effect of chromium content on microstructural evolution of CoNiAlW superalloy

Cyril Cayron

Effects of chromium (Cr) content on types and morphologies of various phases of a newly developed Co-Ni-Al-W superalloy (Co-30Ni-6W-9Al-3Ti-1Ta) have been investigated in this study. Microstructural examinations were carried out by field-emission scanning ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

Persistence of variant selection in red gold alloys

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

Recently, a new thermally activated distortion with amplification (TADA) effect has been reported in red gold alloys caused by the A1 -> L1(0) phase transformation. The macroscopic amplification is due to the persistence of variant selection nucleated unde ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022