Thermo-Mechanical Behavior and Shakedown of Shape Memory Alloy Cable Structures
dc.contributor.author | Biggs, Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-05T20:26:40Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-05T20:26:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.date.submitted | ||
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138510 | |
dc.description.abstract | Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are a versatile class of smart materials that exhibit adaptive properties which have been applied to solve engineering problems in wide-ranging fields from aerospace to biomedical engineering. Yet there is a lack of understanding of the fundamental nature of SMAs in order to effectively apply them to challenging problems within these engineering fields. Stranding fine NiTi wires into a cable form satisfies the demands of many aerospace and civil engineering applications which require actuators to withstand large tensile loads. The impact of increased bending and twisting in stranded NiTi wire structures, as well as introducing contact mechanics to the unstable phase transformation is not well understood, and this work aims to fill that void. To study the scalability of NiTi cables, thermo-mechanical characterization tests are conducted on cables much larger than those previously tested. These cables are found to have good superelastic properties and repeatable cyclic behavior with minimal induced plasticity. The behavior of additional cables, which have higher transition temperatures that can be used in a shape memory mode as thermo-responsive, high force actuator elements, are explored. These cables are found to scale up the performance of straight wire by maintaining an equivalent work output. Moreover, this work investigates the degradation of the thermal actuation of SMA wires through novel stress-temperature paths, discovering several path dependent behaviors of transformation-induced plasticity. The local mechanics of NiTi cable structures are explored through experiments utilizing digital image correlation, revealing new periodic transformation instabilities. Finite element simulations are presented, which indicate that the instabilities are caused by friction and relative sliding between wires in a cable. Finally, a study of the convective heat transfer of helical wire involving a suite of wind tunnel experiments, numerical analyses, and an empirical correlation is presented. This provides a method to better model the thermal behavior of helical SMA actuators and highlights the non-monotonic dependence of the convective heat transfer coefficient of helical wire with respect to the angle of the flow. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | shape memory alloy | |
dc.subject | SMA | |
dc.subject | nickel titanium | |
dc.subject | NiTi | |
dc.subject | smart materials | |
dc.subject | experimental mechanics | |
dc.title | Thermo-Mechanical Behavior and Shakedown of Shape Memory Alloy Cable Structures | |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Shaw, John A | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Wineman, Alan S | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Daly, Samantha Hayes | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Mankame, Nilesh | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Sundararaghavan, Veera | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Aerospace Engineering | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138510/1/dbbiggs_1.pdf | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-2534-9861 | |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Biggs, Daniel; 0000-0002-2534-9861 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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