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DOI: 10.32604/cmes.2022.019226
ARTICLE
Study on the Mechanical Properties of Ni-Ti-Cu Shape Memory Alloy Considering Different Cu Contents
1Transportation Science and Engineering College, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, China
2Aeronautical Engineering College, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, 300300, China
*Corresponding Author: Bingfei Liu. Email: bfliu@cauc.edu.cn
Received: 10 September 2021; Accepted: 12 November 2021
Abstract: By adding copper to increase the performance, the Ni-Ti-Cu Shape Memory Alloy (SMA), has been widely used in the field of engineering in recent years. A thermodynamic constitutive model for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering different copper contents is established in this work. Numerical results for two different copper contents, as examples, are compared with the experimental results to verify the accuracy of the theoretical work. Based on the verified constitutive model, the effects of different copper content on the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA and the tensile and compressive asymmetric properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA are finally discussed, respectively.
Keywords: Shape memory alloy; copper contents; constitutive model; tension and compression asymmetric
Shape memory alloy (SMA), as a type of functional material, has been developed since 1963, due to its superior properties and broad application prospects, which have attracted wide attention from experts and scholars. At present, there are three categories of the SMA that have been put into application [1], the Ni based, the Copper based and the stainless steel based. The Ni-based SMA, especially the NiTi SMA shows excellent properties such as Shape Memory Effect and superelastic [2,3], damping characteristics [4,5], corrosion resistance [6–8] and biocompatibility [9,10]. Based on these characteristics, Ni-based SMA has been widely used in aerospace, machinery, chemical, electronics and medical fields [11–13].
In the past few years, the published work on Ni-based SMA has been mainly focused on the fatigue behaviors, the superelasticity, the corrosion resistance, and mechanical behavior under tension and compression conditions. The results show that by changing the contents of various elements in the alloy or adding a small amount of the rare elements, the performance of such alloy can be improved [14–16]. The research of adding copper to improve the performance of Ni-based SMA through experimental methods has attracted more and more attention from scholars in recent years. Hakan et al. have studied the effect of Cu addition on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ni-based SMA [17]. Musa et al. have studied the effect of Cu addition on porous NiTi SMAs produced by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis [18]. Shelyakov et al. have studied the formation of structure of Ti-Ni-Cu alloys with high copper contents planar flow casting [19]. Chernysheva et al. have studied the effect of local atomic and crystal structure of rapidly quenched Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloys with high copper contents [20]. However, most of the above work focused on experimental testing and mechanical performance characterization, and there is little research on its theoretical work.
As for the researches on the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA, the experimental work was published by Li et al. [21]. For different copper contents, the material parameters including the Young’s modulus, the coefficient of thermal expansion and the critical transformation temperatures for the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA are all given. By combining such experimental results and the published constitutive model of the NiTi SMA, a thermodynamic constitutive model for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the effect of the copper contents is established in this work. The numerical results for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the effects of different copper contents and tension-compression asymmetry are discussed, respectively.
2 The Constitutive Model of the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA
Similar to the existing constitutive model for NiTi SMA in the literature [22], the constitutive relation of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA can also be expressed as
where
where
where
According to the existing literature [24], the
where
The experimental data of the material parameters for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the influence of copper contents has been reported by Li et al. [21]. The results show that the parameters for the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA are all approximately proportional to the corresponding parameters for the Ni-Ti SMA. In order to establish the variation relation between Ni-Ti-Cu SMA material parameters and Ni-Ti SMA material parameters with the increase of copper contents, a correction function is provided. It can be obtained by
where the subscript
Then, when these material parameters are given, the stress-strain relationship for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering different copper contents can be obtained by Eqs. (1), (4), (5), (7) and (8).
It has been reported in several published literatures that the macroscopic transformation strain of SMA is only related to the second deviatoric stress invariant, which can effectively capture the thermodynamics behaviors of the SMA. However, in order to further simulate the overall mechanical behavior of SMA, it is also necessary to model the tension-compression asymmetry. Therefore, in order to consider the tension and compression asymmetry, the
where
where
The effective stress
Then, when these material parameters are given, the stress-strain relationship for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA under consideration of tensile-compression asymmetry can be obtained by Eqs. (1), (4), (5), (7) and (11).
3.1 Ni-Ti-Cu SMA Considering Different Copper Contents
In order to consider the effects of the copper contents, parametric equations for the effect of copper content on material parameters (e.g., Young’s modulus, critical phase transition temperature, maximum phase transition strain, stress effect coefficient) are introduced into the published constitutive model of the shape memory alloys to obtain the correction model for Ni-Ti-Cu SMA with different copper contents. As for the maximum phase transition strain, the cumulative effect of different cycles should be considered.
The material parameters of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the influence of copper contents can be obtained by substituting the material parameters of Li et al. [21] obtained through experiments into Eq. (8), which can be shown in Table 1.
The initial temperature of the material cannot be obtained from Li et al. [21], so assume that
As seen from Fig. 1, for (a)~(f) under no-stress,
Then, the accuracy of the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA constitutive model considering the copper contents in the second part need to be verified to ensure that the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA are further studied under the correct constitutive. And the theoretical models of Ti-50.8Ni SMA and Ti-40.8Ni-10Cu SMA are selected for comparison with experiments. Based on the experiment results, assume that
According to the theoretical derivation in Part 2, the martenite volume fraction can be calculated by Eqs. (4)–(6), and the transformation strain can be calculated by Eqs. (6), (7), then the stress stain relationship for the material can be obtained by Eqs. (1)–(3) with the corresponding material parameters in Table 1 and critical phase transformation stress in Table 2. The model in this work can be used to simulate such behaviors of the SMA materials considering the different Cu contents. In order to verify the correctness of the model, as examples, the theoretical results for the cases with Ti-50.8Ni, and Ti-40.8Ni-10Cu are modeled and compared with the experimental results in Fig. 2. For the case of Ti-50.8Ni SMA, because the current temperature is higher than the
As shown in Fig. 2, the dotted curve represents the experimental data for the uniaxial compression case published by Li et al. [21]. The solid line is the result of the simulation under uniaxial tension. As shown in the Fig. 2, there are still some differences between the predicted curves and the experimental results. Two main reasons can be analyzed for the preliminary. First, it may be part of the plastic deformation during the phase transition, which is not studied in this work. Secondly, the selected experimental data is obtained by Li through the cyclic loading-unloading process. According to the existing references, the accumulated residual strain during the cycle is relatively large, which conveys that as the number of cycles increases, the residual strain increases rapidly at the beginning and the residual strain tends to be saturated after reaching a certain number of cycles. This cumulative increase in residual strain can be attributed to the dislocation slip of retained martensite and austenite during the cyclic deformation process [26,27].
Based on the verified constitutive model, the effect of different copper contents on mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA, and for different copper contents, the properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering tension and compression asymmetry will be discussed then, respectively.
For the shape memory effect of SMA, both external load and temperature play a vital role. At a constant temperature, a tensile stress
Then keeping the temperature constant and unloading SMA material. According to Fig. 1, in the temperature range of
After completely unloading, keep
With the increase of copper contents, the stress-strain relation of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA at different initial temperatures are further studied to obtain the influence of copper contents on the stress and strain of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA. According to the curves of the critical stress and temperature of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA shown in Fig. 1, the initial temperature that satisfies the above three temperature ranges (
Fig. 3 shows the stress-strain relation of Ni-Ti-Cu alloys with different contents at different initial temperatures. It can be seen that different copper contents and different initial temperatures have different effects on the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu alloys. When the copper contents are constant, Ni-Ti-Cu alloys have different mechanical properties at different initial temperatures. When the initial temperature is between
In order to further study the effect of copper contents on the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA at the same initial temperature, the initial temperature of 25°C and 45°C are selected as the examples, then the stress-strain relation of the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA with different copper contents are given by Fig. 4.
As shown in Fig. 4, at the same initial temperatures 25°C or 45°C, the copper contents have an effect on the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA. Under the initial temperature of 25°C, when the copper contents are less than 1%, Ni-Ti-Cu alloy is completely superelastic. When the copper contents are greater than 4% and less than 10%, Ni-Ti-Cu SMA is partially superelastic. When the copper contents are greater than 10%, the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA does not undergo reorientation. As shown in Fig. 4b, when the initial temperature of the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA is 45°C, all Ni-Ti-Cu SMA with different copper contents can be fully recovered without heating after being completely unloading, showing the complete superelasticity of the material.
3.2 Ni-Ti-Cu SMA Considering Tension and Compression Asymmetry
The developed theory of Part 2 will be applied in modeling the constitutive response of the SMA considering the tensile-compressive asymmetry. SMA under uniaxial load is usually studied, so it is difficult to analyze its phase distribution under different loads. In this work, the case of uniaxial loads is analyzed. At isothermal conditions, the uniaxial load is
In order to obtain the parameters
From Table 3, the material parameters required for uniaxial tension can be obtained. In combination with the experimental data, it is assumed that the critical stress and maximum phase transformation strain corresponding to the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA during uniaxial compression should meet the conditions [28]:
According to the above assumptions, the critical stress and maximum phase transformation strain can be obtained separately by calculation. It is assumed that
Substituting the material parameters corresponding to uniaxial tension and uniaxial compression into the constitutive model of the second part, the stress-strain relation of the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the asymmetry of tension and compression can be obtained. The numerical results of the stress-strain response for the SMA under uniaxial tension and uniaxial compression are displayed in Fig. 5.
As shown in Fig. 5, the solid line represents the result under uniaxial compression, and the dashed line represents the result under uniaxial tension. It can be found that with the increase of copper contents, the critical stress of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA gradually decreases. And as the increase of copper contents, the maximum transformation strain of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA first decreases and then increases. The predicted mechanical properties of Ni-45.8Ti-5Cu SMA are shown in Fig. 5d.
In this work, the constitutive model of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA considering the different copper contents is established. The main conclusions are as follows:
1. Different copper contents and different initial temperature have influence on the mechanical properties of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA. When the copper contents are greater than 10%, the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA does not undergo reorientation. When the initial temperature is 45°C, the deformation can be restored due to the superelasticity without heating.
2. At initial temperatures of 25°C and 45°C, the maximum stress in the Ni-Ti-Cu SMA increases gradually with the increase of copper content. And the maximum phase strain decreases slightly with the increase of copper content and the maximum phase strain of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA with different copper contents is basically stable at about 0.1. At the same time, the hysteresis curve range of Ni-Ti-Cu SMA gradually increases with the increase of copper content.
Funding Statement: The authors acknowledge the financial support by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11502284), Key Deployment Projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KFZD-SW-435), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (3122020077).
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the present study.
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