Journal
SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-665X/aa86f4
Keywords
Ni-Ti; superelasticity; fatigue; hydrogen; self-heating method
Funding
- Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
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Ni-Ti superelastic alloys are extensively used in manufacturing biomedical devices because of their high mechanical performance, good fatigue durability and biocompatibility compared to traditional metallic materials. During clinical use, most of these devices are intended to work under cyclic or repetitive loadings and may be in contact with corrosive environments leading to unexpected failures. It is however recognized that the fatigue-environment interaction, especially fatigue-hydrogen absorption, can be the main cause of these failures. The aim of this work is to investigate the fatigue behavior of superelastic Ni-Ti intended for manufacturing medical devices at high number of cycles (HCF) with a particular emphasis to the effect of hydrogen on fatigue properties. Fatigue tests were analyzed using self-heating measurements based on observing thermal effects during cyclic loadings. The results obtained with self-heating approach showed a trend of a decrease in the fatigue life of Ni-Ti alloys after hydrogen absorption and the fatigue limit extrapolated will be compared with the results obtained with the classical S-N curves method.
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