Fatigue Testing: The Effects of Different Surface Treatments on Nitinol Key Paper Lucy Zhu MatE 198B Advisor: Dr. Stacy Gleixner
Overview Purpose Elements Key Paper Experimental Approach Experimental Results Significance Drawbacks Conclusions
Purpose Need for biomedical devices Nitinol is a desirable material Understand relation between surface treatment and fatigue
Elements Behavior of superelastic nitinol Fatigue behavior of nitinol Effect of surface treatments
Key Paper Yang, Jianhua, Fatigue Characterization of Superelastic Nitinol, SMST-97: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies, 1997, p
Experimental Approach Binary superelastic nitinol wire Rotary beam bend method Strain-controlled Fatigue to failure Test performed at various temperatures Test performed with different heat treatments
Experimental Results
As-Treated Aged
Significance Nitinol wires tested Rotary beam bending method Fatigue dependent on strain, temperature, and heat treatment
Drawbacks No information about surface treatments Lack of details on presented information
Conclusions Nitinol wire is an effective test material Strain-controlled bend fatigue testing Have not found published data on fatigue testing of NiTi with various surface treatments
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