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A technique for direct experimental investigations of coupling between applied elastic stress and magnetic response in ferromagnetic shape memory alloys over the temperature ranges of paramagnetic to ferromagnetic and martensitic transformations has been developed, based on the inverse magnetostriction (Villary) effect. Primary characteristics available from the experiment are elastic and anelastic properties and, the most important, signal related to stress-induced magnetization.

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Magnetic-field-induced strains larger than 2% have been obtained in the nonlayered L10 martensite of a Ni49Fe18Ga27Co6 single crystal, under an assisting tensile stress around 16 MPa and fields below 15 kOe. In martensitic samples previously compressed, application of a constant tensile stress along the same axis together with a perpendicular magnetic field produces the elongation of the sample, as one of the variants rotates its c axis from the field direction to the stress-axis direction. An estimated magnetostress of ∼0.8 MPa is in good agreement with the theoretical value given by the ratio of magnetocrystalline anisotropy constant and twinning shear.

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