Abstract: Effect of solution treatment temperature on transformations and two way memory, effect in a Ti- 55.2 wt-%Ni alloy was investigated. The results show that with increasing the solution treatment temperature (T_s), two way memory effect (TWME) decreases continuously and temperatures of martensite and reverse, martensite transformations (MR) rise, but the temperature of R start trans- formation (parent→R) does not change. The results of the internal friction measurements indicate that when T_s=1073 K, internal friction peaks of MR and P→R transformations are larger than those of the specimens after solution-treatments at 973 and 1173 K. With increasing T_s, the de- crease of TWME can be attributed to that the defect stress field caused by the rolling fades out grad- ually and preferential martensite variants, which fit into the defect stress field, decrease. The changes of transformation temperatures and internal friction peaks with T_s are closely related to the change of defect numbers.

Key words: solution-treatment temperature, internal friction, two way memory effect, transformation