NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF THE EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF INTERPENETRATING PHASE COMPOSITES COMPRISING ARCHITECTED NITINOL CORES

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    Abstract

    This work focuses on the computational investigation of 3D interpenetrating phase composites (IPCs) consisting of an architected shape memory alloy (SMA) microstructure embedded in an elastic-plastic second phase. The SMA functional phase consists of Nitinol (NiTi) for which the constitutive material behavior is simulated using a user-defined material subroutine (UMAT) in Abaqus finite element software. Beam-based and mathematically driven triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) architectures are considered for the NiTi functional phase. IPC unit cells are identified and modeled considering idealized periodic boundary conditions (PBCs). The mechanical and functional properties of the unit cells are evaluated using volumetric homogenization. The effective mechanical response is evaluated and analyzed as a function of NiTi volume fraction considering various loading conditions. The results show that NiTi morphology significantly affects the elastic stiffness, which varies monotonically with NiTi content. Among the geometries considered for the NiTi cores, TPMS cores having a Schwarz Diamond topology resulted in the highest effective axial stiffness and bulk moduli, whereas TPMS IWP topologies resulted in the highest strain recovery.

    Original languageBritish English
    Title of host publicationProceedings of ASME 2023 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2023
    ISBN (Electronic)9780791887523
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2023
    Event16th Annual ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2023 - Austin, United States
    Duration: 11 Sep 202313 Sep 2023

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of ASME 2023 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2023

    Conference

    Conference16th Annual ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS 2023
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityAustin
    Period11/09/2313/09/23

    Keywords

    • finite element analysis
    • Interpenetrating phase composites (IPCs)
    • Nitinol (NiTi)
    • smart materials
    • triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS)

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