Fatigue of Shape Memory Alloys
Fatigue of Shape Memory Alloys
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10.1002/9781118426913.ch5
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2015-11
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M. Mahtabi;N. Shamsaei;M. Elahinia
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作者:
M. Mahtabi;N. Shamsaei;M. Elahinia
Fatigue is generally defined as the gradual deterioration of materials under cyclic loading. This type of failure is very important because of its unexpected nature. It can cause serious damage to mechanical and biomedical systems without any warning. In the literature, fatigue has been found to be responsible for 50-90% of all mechanical failures [1]. As discussed in the previous chapters, shape memory alloys have widespread applications in various industries such as automotive, aerospace, civil, and bioengineering. The realistic loading condition in many of these applications is cyclic; therefore, fatigue is often the main failure mode for such components and structures. Two prominent superelastic NiTi medical devices are the stents to expand the blood vessels and the dental files for root canal treatments. Expansion and contraction of the blood vessels and the torsional loadings in dental files constitute as cyclic loading in these SMA elements. Some early studies have considered the fatigue of SMA actuators and confirmed a low-cycle fatigue behavior in these components [2]. The first article addressing the fatigue behavior of an SMA was published in 1958 for a single-crystal Cu-Al-Ni in plane bending [3]. By discovering