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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 199, Issue -, Pages 1-35Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2020.03.018
Keywords
Shape memory alloy; Superelasticity; Phase transformation; Multi-axial testing; Constitutive behavior
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Funding
- UM/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory in Smart Materials and Structures
- United States Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0003996]
- National Science Foundation (CAREER Award) [CMMI 1251891]
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The tensile response of superelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) has been widely studied, but detailed experimental studies under multi-axial loading are relatively rare. In Part I, we present the isothermal responses of commercially-available superelastic NiTi tubes for a series of proportional stretch-twist controlled histories, spanning pure tension to simple torsion to pure compression. These axial-shear responses are used to quantify the onset and saturation during forward (loading) and reverse (unloading) stress-induced transformations for the first time. Each of the four transformation surfaces is well-captured by a smooth (three-parameter) ellipse in both strain and stress space. A simple Gibbs free energy model is presented to show how the driving force for phase transformation is approximately constant across all proportional strain paths and how the stress and strain transformation surfaces are conjugate to one another. In addition, transformation kinetics and surface strain morphologies are characterized by stereo digital image correlation (DIC). Under extension at low amounts of twist, stress-induced transformation involves strain localization in helical bands that evolve into axial propagation of ring-like transformation fronts with fine criss-crossing fingers (similar to those seen by Q. P. Sun and co-workers in pure extension). However, at large amounts of twist, including simple torsion and pure torsion, we report a new transformation morphology, involving strain localization along nearly longitudinal bands in the tube. The sequel (Part II) will address the response to non-proportional stretch-twist paths. Together, these detailed multi-axial results advance the scientific understanding of superelasticity and inform efforts to develop high-fidelity SMA constitutive models and simulation tools. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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