Thermomechanical cyclic loading and fatigue life characterization of nickel rich NiTi shape-memory alloy actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6929, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bertacchini, Olivier W ^a   Lagoudas, Dimitris C ^a   Calkins, Frederick T ^b   Mabe, James H ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractography; Heat treatment environment; Microcracks; Oxidation; Plastic strain; Precipitates; Shape memory alloy; Size effect; Thermomechanical fatigue

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRESSES; CYCLIC LOADINGS; ELASTIC SUBSTRATES; FAILURE MECHANISMS; FATIGUE BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE LIFE CHARACTERIZATION; FATIGUE LIMITS; FATIGUE TESTS; IN ORDER; MEMORY ALLOY; NITI SMA; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PERMANENT DEFORMATIONS; SHAPE MEMORY; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY (SMA) ACTUATORS; SHAPE RECOVERY; SMA BEAM; SMART STRUCTURES; STRESS LEVELS; TRAILING EDGES; VARIABLE GEOMETRY;

ACTUATORS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FATIGUE TESTING; FORMING; GAS DYNAMICS; HEAT TREATMENT; JET ENGINES; MARTENSITIC TRANSFORMATIONS; MECHANICS; MICROACTUATORS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; PIGMENTS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; WELDS;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 44949100639     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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