TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CHARACTERIZING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE: PART 2-FUNDAMENTAL ISOTHERMAL RESPONSES
TIPS AND TRICKS FOR CHARACTERIZING SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE: PART 2-FUNDAMENTAL ISOTHERMAL RESPONSES
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1747-1567.2008.00460.x
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
Iadicola, M. A.
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作者:
Churchill, C. B.;Shaw, J. A.;Iadicola, M. A.
(SMA) wire. Our aims were to acquaint uninitiated engineers with SMA testing and to highlight pitfalls in technique and interpreting test results. In the previous article (Part 1), 1 thermomechanical experiments were presented on two commercial Nitinol alloys: a shape memory (SM) wire, having an austenite finish temperature, Af, above room temperature, and a superelastic (SE) wire, having an Af below room temperature. Both SM and SE behavior were demonstrated for each in different temperature regimes along with a description of the underlying microstructural mechanisms responsible for these unusual behaviors. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) thermograms were provided for each alloy as a first step to quantify their transformation temperatures, specific heats, and latent heats of transformation.In this article (Part 2), we discuss techniques and good practice for temperature control and strain measurement. The characterization of the same two alloys is continued through a series of isothermal experiments to show the dramatic range of tensile responses in a temperature window spanning the respective stress-free transformation temperatures. Characteristic transformation stresses and strains are mapped to quantify the thermomechanical sensitivities in the material. Last, material instabilities, strain localization, and propagating transformation fronts are discussed along with their implications on measured responses.