骨科固定用镍钛形状记忆合金的摩擦磨损性能研究

采用SRV摩擦磨损试验机考察了GCr15钢对常用骨科手术用固定材料--NiTi形状记忆合金在干摩擦及润滑油和人工关节液润滑下的摩擦磨损性能,同时考察了热处理对NiTi形状记忆合金摩擦磨损性能的影响;采用扫描电子显微镜观察NiTi形状记忆合金磨损表面形貌,并利用示差热分析(DSC)确定了NiTi合金的相变温度.结果表明:经过热处理的NiTi合金的形状记忆相变温度与人体体温接近,但热处理使NiTi合金的抗磨性能下降; NiTi合金在摩擦过程中受摩擦热的影响发生相转变,使其抗磨性能提高.相对于医用人工关节润滑液及其它润滑油而言,双酯作为GCr15/NiTi合金的润滑剂表现出更好的减摩和抗磨能力.     

热处理对NiTi形状记忆合金冲蚀磨损性能的影响

采用自制浆罐式砂水冲蚀磨损试验装置研究了4种经不同条件热处理的NiTi合金与1Cr18Ni9Ti不锈钢的冲蚀磨损性能;采用XL-30型扫描电子显微镜观察试样的冲蚀磨损表面形貌;采用MH-6型显微硬度计测量NiTi合金硬度;采用自制拉伸装置测量NiTi合金的力学性能.结果表明:5种试样的冲蚀磨损量随着冲蚀时间、冲蚀速度、砂水比及砂粒度的增加而增大,4种NiTi合金的耐冲蚀性能相近,均明显优于1Cr18Ni9Ti不锈钢,其中试样NiTi-3和NiTi-1表现出较好的耐冲蚀性能;硬度并非NiTi合金冲蚀磨损性能的决定因素,超弹性和超塑性是NiTi合金具有较好耐冲蚀性的主要原因,热处理使得NiTi合金的超弹性变形量减小,但增加了NiTi合金的塑性变形量;合金丝磨损表面不同部位的磨损机理不同,中部为典型的变形磨损,侧面为微切削磨损,5种试样均表现为典型的韧性材料冲蚀磨损特征.     

基于DIC的退火NiTi合金断裂力学行为研究

断裂是镍钛合金(NiTi合金)材料和构件失效的重要原因之一.为了研究退火工艺对NiTi合金断裂力学行为的影响,采用二维数字图像相关(Digital Image Correlation,简称DIC)加载系统分别在室温(19℃)和高温(150℃)环境下对经不同退火温度处理的带张开型(I型)缺口的NiTi合金试件进行单轴拉伸...     

NiTi合金力学和阻尼性质研究及伪弹性退化分析

试验考察了NiTi合金在不同应变幅值循环载荷作用下的力学特性和阻尼性能,并引入了残余内应力分析伪弹性退化机理。用马氏体相变开始应力、残余应变等参数表征NiTi合金伪弹性特征,用等效阻尼比表征NiTi合金的阻尼性能。试验结果分析表明:应变幅值增加会加快NiTi合金伪弹性随循环次数的退化;当应变幅值处于马氏体相变开始和结束应变之间时,不同应变幅值下NiTi合金的马氏体相变平台随循环次数增加同步降低,且当NiTi合金在相变中段卸载时其阻尼性能最好;结合残余内应力与残余应变正相关线性关系可分析NiTi合金伪弹性退化内在机理。该研究可为循环载荷下NiTi合金伪弹性行为的准确描述提供依据,并可为NiTi合金阻尼器的设计提供参考。     

NiTi形状记忆合金表面TiN薄膜的摩擦磨损性能研究

采用电弧离子镀技术在NiTi形状记忆合金表面制备了TiN薄膜,利用X射线衍射、扫描电子显微镜、原子力显微镜、轮廓仪、纳米压痕仪和摩擦试验机表征了TiN薄膜的相成分、表面特性、厚度、硬度和膜基结合力.通过摩擦试验对比了未镀膜和镀膜NiTi合金的摩擦磨损特性.结果表明:制得的TiN薄膜均匀、致密,提高了NiTi合金的硬度;在干摩擦、0.9%NaCl溶液和Hank′s溶液润滑介质条件下,TiN薄膜均表现出良好的减摩抗磨性能,提高了NiTi合金的抗摩擦磨损特性.     

加载路径和温度对NiTi合金相变特性的影响

利用MTS装置,对NiTi形状记忆合金在不同加载路径(拉、压、扭以及拉/压-扭比例加载)和不同温度(28~150℃)下的准静态相变行为进行了较系统的实验研究。结果表明,材料呈现明显的伪弹性效应和拉压不对称性。随着温度的升高,相变起始应力逐渐增大,伪弹性效应和拉压不对称性逐渐减弱。当温度达到一定阈值时,拉压不对称性消失,材料基本呈现弹塑性状态。通过实验曲线确定了NiTi合金的相变临界参数,在σ-τ应力空间中对三种常用宏观相变临界准则进行了讨论,比较了它们各自的适用性。     

相变温度对NiTi形状记忆合金耐磨性的影响

利用WMW-1型摩擦磨损试验机研究了在相同条件下相变温度对6种NiTi形状记忆合金耐磨性的影响,并分析其磨损机制.结果表明:超弹状态NiTi合金具有热弹性马氏体相变、高阻尼效应、应力诱发马氏体和超弹性等特性而使得其耐磨性较好,合金的耐磨性主要取决于相变温度、Ni原子的析出情况和合金硬度.     

应变幅值对循环载荷下NiTi合金力学性质的影响

实验研究了应变幅值对循环载荷下NiTi合金伪弹性退化特征的影响规律,结果表明:当卸载发生在NiTi合金应力诱发马氏体相变阶段时,应变幅值对马氏体相变开始应力的退化规律影响较小,但此时应变幅值的增加会显著增大奥氏体弹性模量的退化程度,而其大变形可回复能力和阻尼特性在应变幅值大于6%时才有大幅度降低。对各参数退化程度进行定量分析,得到了NiTi合金具有较强可回复能力和阻尼性能的应变幅值范围。该研究可为NiTi合金阻尼器的设计提供参考。     

NiTi形状记忆合金动态压缩力学行为的实验研究

采用材料试验机和SHPB实验技术,对在不同初始温度(298～873K)和应变率(5×10-4、～2.3×103s-1)下的NiTi形状记忆合金的压缩力学行为进行了实验研究。结果表明:马氏体状态下的NiTi合金的力学行为对应变率的变化敏感,位错屈服段的硬化模量、相屈服段的硬化模量及马氏体重取向前的弹性模量对应变率的变化不敏感,而位错塑性变形前的弹性模量随应变率的提高迅速增大;奥氏体状态下的NiTi合金随着实验温度升高,无论是应力诱发马氏体相变应力还是奥氏体相屈服应力都逐渐下降,材料表现出温度软化效应。从超弹性温度范围内的卸载曲线中观察到了应力诱发马氏体到奥氏体的逆转变。     

NiTi合金伪弹性退化规律及尺度效应的试验研究

以NiTi合金在结构振动控制中的应用为背景,试验研究了加卸载循环次数和直径尺度对NiTi合金丝伪弹性特征的影响规律。研究结果表明,NiTi合金丝的残余应变随循环次数的增加呈指数关系增加,而其马氏体相变开始应力、奥氏体弹性模量、相变应变和等效阻尼比随循环次数的增加呈指数关系降低;随着直径尺度增加,循环加卸载后,NiTi合金丝的伪弹性退化程度显著增加。此外,残余应变与残余内应力、奥氏体弹性模量以及相变应变之间的线性关系揭示了NiTi合金伪弹性退化的内在机理。     

应力作用下NiTi形状记忆合金微结构演化的相场模拟及其本征应变率敏感性

基于Ginzburg-Landau动力学控制方程建立了NiTi形状记忆合金非等温相场模型,实现了对NiTi合金内应力诱导马氏体相变的数值模拟。同时将晶界能密度引入系统局部自由能密度,从而考虑多晶系统中晶界的重要作用。数值计算了单晶和多晶NiTi形状记忆合金在单轴机械载荷作用下微结构的动态演化过程和宏观力学行为,并重点研究了晶粒尺寸为60 nm的NiTi纳米多晶在低应变率下（0.000 5～15 s-1）力学行为的本征应变率敏感性。研究结果表明,单晶NiTi合金系统高温拉伸-卸载过程中马氏体相变均匀发生,未形成奥氏体-马氏体界面。而纳米多晶系统在加载阶段出现了马氏体带的形成-扩展现象,在卸载阶段出现了马氏体带的收缩-消失现象。相同外载作用过程中,NiTi单晶系统的宏观应力-应变曲线具有更大的滞回环面积,拥有更优的超弹性变形能力。计算结果显示,在中低应变率下纳米晶NiTi形状记忆合金应力-应变关系表现出较明显的应变率相关性,应变率升高导致材料相变应力提升。这一应变率相关性主要源于相场模型中外加载荷速率与马氏体空间演化速度的相互竞争关系。     

超弹性形状记忆合金管单向拉伸试验的数值模拟

NiTi形状记忆合金具有很强的超弹性行为,这种超弹性行为是由于材料在应力作用下发生可逆的马氏体相变所引起。最近Sun和Lee^[4]在NiTi形状记忆合金管单向拉伸试验中观测到,应力诱导马氏体相变具有螺旋带状的形貌特征,本文对此作了数值模拟研究。采用包含应变软化效应的三线性本构关系,建立了NiTi形状记忆合金管的三维有限元模型。通过迭代计算,成功地再现了试验中所观察到的螺旋状相变带从形成到长大的全过程。数值计算结果表明,产生这一独特现象的力学机制,在于NiTi形状记忆合金管在拉伸状态下出现的局部变形失稳极其传播。     

Fracture control parameters for NiTi based shape memory alloys

In this paper new fracture control parameters for Nickel–Titanium (NiTi) based shape memory alloys (SMAs) are proposed, based on a recent literature analytical model on fracture mechanics of SMAs. In fact, the stress induced martensitic transformation, occurring in the crack tip region of NiTi alloys, causes a complex and unusual stress distribution with respect to common engineering materials. For this reason two different stress intensity factors (SIFs) have been defined to describe the stress distribution in both transformed and untransformed regions, i.e. in the martensitic and austenitic phases, respectively. Systematic studies have been carried out to analyze the effects of the main thermo-mechanical parameters of NiTi alloys on the two proposed SIFs, i.e. on the crack tip stress distribution, and comparisons with linear elastic fracture mechanics have been illustrated. Finally, the proposed model was used to analyze different loading conditions of a commercial superelastic NiTi alloys, which demonstrated a marked effect of the temperature on the crack tip stress distribution.     

A numerical model based on Voronoi tessellation for the simulation of the mechanical response of porous shape memory alloys

In recent years, porous shape memory alloys have found several industrial applications. Thanks to biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, and superior mechanical properties, porous NiTi has been introduced as a promising candidate for being used as bone scaffolds. Since the mechanical response of a scaffold is of importance in order to prevent stress-shielding phenomena and trigger ossteointegration, predicting the mechanical response of these scaffolds before fabrication is inevitable. In this paper, a new mesoscale model based on Voronoi tessellation of three-dimensional space is presented for the simulation of porous shape memory alloys. To do so, after tessellating the space, some cells are selected randomly to be assigned as pores and a suitable constitutive model of dense SMA is attributed to the other cells. The model is validated against experimental findings reported in the literature demonstrating good agreement. In addition, the effects of number of cells, level of randomness, and the type of boundary conditions on the stress–strain response is assessed. The results show that in order to achieve desirable results, the number of cells and the value of randomness must be chosen greater than minimum corresponding values. As another result, the geometrically periodic model is more computationally efficient than the mechanically periodic one.     

On the origin of Lüders-like deformation of NiTi shape memory alloys

Polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys deformed in tension tend to exhibit localization and propagation of deformation in macroscopic shear bands. The propagation of the deformation bands is characterized by a plateau-type stress-strain curve. Such behavior has been reported only for NiTi alloys and only in tension. The reason for this behavior is still unclear although different hypotheses have been proposed in the literature. This article briefly summarizes relevant experimental evidences and offers an explanation based on micromechanics modelling of pseudoelasticity of polycrystalline NiTi.     

A MODEL CONSIDERING HYDROSTATIC STRESS OF POROUS NITI SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY

Based on the micromechanical method and thermodynamic theory,a constitutive model for the macroscopic mechanical behavior of porous NiTi shape memory alloy is presented.The hydrostatic stress is considered for porous NiTi according to the transformation function of dense NiTi.The present model takes account of the tensile-compressive asymmetry of NiTi,and can degenerate to model dense material.Numerical calculations,which only need material parameters of dense NiTi,are conducted to investigate the nonlinear and hysteretic strain of porous NiTi,and the predicted results are in good agreement with the corresponding experiments.     

A macroscopic multi-mechanism based constitutive model for the thermo-mechanical cyclic degeneration of shape memory effect of NiTi shape memory alloy

A macroscopic based multi-mechanism constitutive model is constructed in the framework of irreversible thermodynamics to describe the degeneration of shape memory effect occurring in the thermo-mechanical cyclic deformation of NiTi shape memory alloys(SMAs). Three phases,austenite A, twinned martensite Mtand detwinned martensite M~d, as well as the phase transitions occurring between each pair of phases( A → M~t, M~t→ A, A → M~d,M~d→ A, and M~t→ M~d) are considered in the proposed model. Meanwhile, two kinds of inelastic deformation mechanisms, martensite transformation-induced plasticity and reorientation-induced plasticity, are used to explain the degeneration of shape memory effects of NiTi SMAs. The evolution equations of internal variables are proposed by attributing the degeneration of shape memory effect to the interaction between the three phases(A, M~t, and M~d) and plastic deformation. Finally, the capability of the proposed model is verified by comparing the predictions with the experimental results of NiTi SMAs. It is shown that the degeneration of shape memory effect and its dependence on the loading level can be reasonably described by the proposed model.     

The role of texture in tension–compression asymmetry in polycrystalline NiTi

The purpose of the present study is to thoroughly understand the stress–strain behavior of polycrystalline NiTi deformed under tension versus compression. To do this, a micro-mechanical model is used which incorporates single crystal constitutive relationships and experimentally measured polycrystalline texture into the self-consistent formulation. For the first time it is quantitatively demonstrated that texture measurements coupled with a micro-mechanical model can accurately predict tension/compression asymmetry in NiTi shape memory alloys. The predicted critical transformation stress levels and transformation stress–strain slopes under both tensile and compressive loading are consistent with experimental results. For textured polycrystalline NiTi deformed under tension it is demonstrated that the martensite evolution is very abrupt, consistent with the Luders type deformation experimentally observed. The abrupt transformation under tension is attributed to the fact that the majority of the grains are oriented along the [111] crystallographic direction, which is soft under tensile loading. Since single crystals of the [111] orientation are hard under compression it is also demonstrated that under compression the martensite in textured polycrystalline NiTi evolves relatively slower.