Abstract: The effect of quenching temperature on the recovery stress of Fe 18Mn 5Si 8Cr 4Ni shape memory alloy has been studied. The results show that both the maximum recovery stress σ h in heating and the recovery stress σ c at room temperature after heating increased as increasing quenching temperature increased, both σ h and σ c reached maximum at 650℃, and then decreased rapidly with the further increase in quenching temperature,but the descent degree of σ c was far bigger than that of σ h; When the quenching temperature is higher than 850℃, the further increase in quenching temperature had little effect on them; At random quenching temperature, σ c was far bigger than σ h.

Key words: shape memory alloy, quenching, recovery stress