Fabrication and evaluation of SMA-silicone rubber continuous-fiber and particulate composites /
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | actuated an elastomer may produce a composite with a damping capacity behavior by causing the rods to deflect upon heating and behavior involving a thermally induced and zero-stress behavior. Because of the high damping characteristics of the composite properties from micromechanics and the correspon composite. damping capacity of an SMA particulate-elastomeric matrix dence principle from viscoelasticity are used to predict the different temperature histories. The deflections of fully fabricated with two two-way trained wires deflected in one of included both a closed-form solution of the fully actuated low temperature SMA phase, the addition of SMA particles to memory effect, but the relaxed shape of a rod after actuation more thermally stable than the elastomer alone. Effective Ni-Ti wire to exhibit the twoway shape memory effect, a prepared and actuated in the rods according to the shape produce composites with unique material and structural reversible transformation strain, was established. Rods rods were predicted within a reasonable accuracy. Shape Memory Alloys (SMAS) may be combined with elastomers to shape recovery of the SMA wires. The wires were at first silicone rubber rods can affect the composite structural state and an incremental formu lation that accounts for The embedding of Ni-Ti SMA wire actuators into flexible the response of the flexible rods with embedded actuators two opposite, yet planar directions, according to the SMA undeformed shape upon cooling of the SMA wires. Modelling of was different from the original shape. A procedure to train wire being heated, and they relaxed to the straight, |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Aerospace Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 78 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |