Study on cyclic deformation and fatigue of thermal and magnetic shape memory alloys

形状记忆合金(包括热致和磁致形状记忆合金)由于其特有的超弹性和形状记忆效应, 一直以来受到学者和工程界人士广泛关注, 且已有诸多成功的工程应用案例.为了进一步拓展该类合金的工程应用范围, 对其热--力和磁--力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为的宏微观实验观察和理论模型研究成果进行了综述. 总结了NiTi和NiTiX两类合金材料的温度诱发(即热致)的热--力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为研究的最新成果; 对以NiMnGa合金为代表的磁场诱发(即磁致)的磁--力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为的研究现状进行了评述; 提出并预测了未来的研究方向及发展趋势.     

热致和磁致形状记忆合金循环变形和疲劳行为研究

形状记忆合金(包括热致和磁致形状记忆合金)由于其特有的超弹性和形状记忆效应,一直以来受到学者和工程界人士广泛关注,且已有诸多成功的工程应用案例.为了进一步拓展该类合金的工程应用范围,对其热–力和磁–力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为的宏微观实验观察和理论模型研究成果进行了综述.总结了NiTi和NiTiX两类合金材料的温度诱发(即热致)的热–力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为研究的最新成果;对以NiMnGa合金为代表的磁场诱发(即磁致)的磁–力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为的研究现状进行了评述;提出并预测了未来的研究方向及发展趋势.     

NiTi 形状记忆合金热-力耦合循环变形行为宏微观实验和理论研究进展

本文对NiTi形状记忆合金热-力耦合循环变形行为研究的最新进展进行综述和评价。首先总结NiTi形状记忆合金在循环加载条件下的单轴、非比例多轴循环变形特性以及强烈的热-力耦合特性,阐述NiTi形状记忆合金在循环变形过程中出现功能性劣化的微观机理;然后,讨论在宏观和细观尺度上建立的三类NiTi形状记忆合金典型的循环本构模型,并评述代表性模型的预测能力;最后,总结已有研究存在的不足,对相关问题的进一步研究提出建议。在本构模型方面主要介绍了作者及其合作者在基于晶体塑性的热-力耦合循环本构模型方面的工作,突出了多种非弹性变形机制和强烈热-力耦合行为对形状记忆合金循环变形行为的影响。     

基于LabVIEW平台的形状记忆合金温度循环加载控制装置研究

本文根据NiTi形状记忆合金热-力耦合循环变形实验的要求,针对传统加热方法变温速度慢、温度变化非线性、加热不均匀,且无法与其他装置配合使用等缺点,提出了一种新型形状记忆合金温度循环加载控制装置。该装置基于电流加热方法,使用测温仪表进行测温,采用直流电源与降温组件进行变温,同时利用PID等控制方法进行控制,达到精准控温的效果。通过测试及实验,可以看出,该装置具有良好的控温性能、快速的变温速度、自动的程序控制等优点。本装置的成功开发为形状记忆合金热-力耦合循环变形和疲劳失效行为的实验研究提供了坚实的设备基础。     

电子封装钎料合金耦合损伤的多轴时相关低周疲劳失效研究

基于63Sn-37Pb钎料合金材料的多轴时相关循环变形行为及疲劳失效行为,提出了耦合损伤的多轴时相关理论模型及疲劳失效模型,模型引入了损伤演化方程,考虑了时相关效应及非比例路径效应,能较好地模拟材料在不同非比例加载路径下的循环变形行为及疲劳失效行为,较准确地预测多轴疲劳寿命.     

多物理场耦合作用分析的近场动力学理论与方法

广义来说, 近场动力学(peri-dynamics,PD)是假设每个物质点在承受一定范围内的非接触相互作用下,研究整个物理系统演化过程的理论,为涉及非连续和非局部相互作用的问题提供了一个统一的数学框架,具有广泛的适用性.在简要介绍诸多工程对于多物理场模型和数值计算软件的迫切需求后,针对现有商用软件在处理结构非连续演化问题时遇到的瓶颈,引入近场动力学理论和方法. 概述近场动力学固体力学模型,系统阐述近场动力学扩散模型和近场动力学多物理场耦合建模的研究现状和进展,主要涉及电子元器件、电子封装和岩土工程领域的多物理场耦合建模,包括热--力、湿--热--力、热--氧、热--力--氧、力--电、热--电、力--热--电、多孔介质的水--力流固相互作用等非耦合、半耦合与完全耦合模型,强调发展耦合方程数值解法的重要性.最后对扩散问题和多物理场耦合问题的近场动力学理论模型、数值算法和工程应用做进一步展望.      

Review of peridynamics for multi-physics coupling modeling

广义来说, 近场动力学(peri-dynamics,PD)是假设每个物质点在承受一定范围内的非接触相互作用下,研究整个物理系统演化过程的理论,为涉及非连续和非局部相互作用的问题提供了一个统一的数学框架,具有广泛的适用性.在简要介绍诸多工程对于多物理场模型和数值计算软件的迫切需求后,针对现有商用软件在处理结构非连续演化问题时遇到的瓶颈,引入近场动力学理论和方法. 概述近场动力学固体力学模型,系统阐述近场动力学扩散模型和近场动力学多物理场耦合建模的研究现状和进展,主要涉及电子元器件、电子封装和岩土工程领域的多物理场耦合建模,包括热--力、湿--热--力、热--氧、热--力--氧、力--电、热--电、力--热--电、多孔介质的水--力流固相互作用等非耦合、半耦合与完全耦合模型,强调发展耦合方程数值解法的重要性.最后对扩散问题和多物理场耦合问题的近场动力学理论模型、数值算法和工程应用做进一步展望.     

铁电材料的疲劳失效行为

在航空航天、核能发电等重大装备技术领域, 作为高温传感/驱动/能量收集器件的敏感材料——铋层状结构铁电(BLSF)陶瓷在复杂载荷环境下的疲劳失效问题严重限制着器件寿命和可靠性的提高. 本文以BLSF陶瓷的应用需求为背景, 围绕铁电材料的疲劳裂纹扩展与电畴极化翻转及其相互作用机制等关键问题, 综述了铁电材料在热、力、电三种载荷及其耦合作用下疲劳失效行为的研究现状, 并根据当前铁电材料的一些新发展、新应用对其未来研究方向进行了展望, 旨在为高性能、长寿命铁电/压电器件设计提供参考.      

电致失效力学

电致失效力学研究单调或交变电场载荷下由应力引起的失效行为,它包含了电致断裂、电致疲劳、电致迁移与电致损伤等新研究课题．本文概述了电致失效力学的领域与课题,并深入讨论了电致应变诱导断裂疲劳的机理及电迁移损伤的力电耦合过程．研究结果表明,电致失效力学可提供铁电陶瓷致动器和集成电路的若干关键设计参数．对铁电陶瓷多层共烧致动器,该分析提供其层厚、外加电场强度和交变电场循环周数．对集成电路内导线,该分析提供其允许电流密度和临界线长．      

铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展

铁电陶瓷是具备力电转换功能的典型高技术材料.本文概述铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效的研究进展.首先介绍电致疲劳的定义和特点,然后讨论电致疲劳失效在不同尺度下的表现行为,包括宏观尺度下裂纹的疲劳扩展;细观尺度下裂纹的萌生;微观尺度下点缺陷在循环电场下的积聚.随即阐述了铁电陶瓷在循环电场下缺陷汇聚的理论分析,运用微结构演化方法计算了单个孔洞随畴界的移动距离,推导了循环电场下铁电陶瓷内点缺陷浓度的演化方程,给出了点缺陷浓度与其汇聚程度之间的定量关系,从而提出了贯通不同尺度的铁电陶瓷电致疲劳失效机理.      

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.     

Two scale damage model and related numerical issues for thermo-mechanical High Cycle Fatigue

On the idea that fatigue damage is localized at the microscopic scale, a scale smaller than the mesoscopic one of the Representative Volume Element (RVE), a three-dimensional two scale damage model has been proposed for High Cycle Fatigue applications. It is extended here to anisothermal cases and then to thermo-mechanical fatigue. The modeling consists in the micromechanics analysis of a weak micro-inclusion subjected to plasticity and damage embedded in an elastic meso-element (the RVE of continuum mechanics). The consideration of plasticity coupled with damage equations at microscale, altogether with Eshelby–Kröner localization law, allows to compute the value of microscopic damage up to failure for any kind of loading, 1D or 3D, cyclic or random, isothermal or anisothermal, mechanical, thermal or thermo-mechanical. A robust numerical scheme is proposed in order to make the computations fast. A post-processor for damage and fatigue (DAMAGE_2005) has been developed. It applies to complex thermo-mechanical loadings. Examples of the representation by the two scale damage model of physical phenomena related to High Cycle Fatigue are given such as the mean stress effect, the non-linear accumulation of damage. Examples of thermal and thermo-mechanical fatigue as well as complex applications on real size testing structure subjected to thermo-mechanical fatigue are detailed.     

Analysis of an adhesively bonded single-strap joint integrated with shape memory alloy (SMA) reinforced layers

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are increasingly becoming a topic of research in the area of smart materials. In this study, the design and analysis of a SMA reinforced joint is presented to elucidate the contribution of the active composite layer to the reduction of stress concentrations in the adhesive layer. Basic thermo-mechanical properties of the SMA are obtained by micromechanics. The forces and moments at the joint edges are obtained by incorporating the thermo-mechanical effect of the active composite layer within the joint. Further, an analytic model based on the first-order shear deformation theory was employed to conduct stress analyses of this joint system. The state-space method was utilized to obtain the final analytic solutions, including the peel and shear stresses in the adhesive layer. Detailed numerical analyses are conducted. The results confirm that the active composite layer significantly reduces stress concentrations at the joint edges.     

Numerical simulation of thermo-mechanical fatigue properties for particulate reinforced composites

In this paper, a two dimensional Voronoi cell element, formulated with creep, thermal and plastic strain, is applied for the numerical simulation of thermo-mechanical fatigue behavior for particulate reinforced composites. The relation between mechanical fatigue phases and thermal fatigue phases influences the thermo-mechanical fatigue behavior and cyclic creep damage. The topological features of micro-structure in particulate reinforced composites, such as the orientation, depth-width ratio, distribution and volume fraction of inclusions, have a great influence on thermo-mechanical behavior. Some related conclusions are obtained by examples of numerical simulation.The project supported by the Special Funds for the National Major Fundamental Research Projects (2004CB619304), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10276020 and 50371042), the Key Grant Project of Chinese Ministry of Education (0306)     

ADVANCES IN TRANSFORMATION RATCHETING AND RATCHETING-FATIGUE INTERACTION OF NITI SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY

The accumulation of inelastic deformation occurring in NiTi shape memory alloy under the stress-controlled cyclic loading condition is named transformation ratcheting, since it is mainly caused by the solid-solid transformation from austenite to martensite phase and vice versa. The transformation ratcheting and its effect on the fatigue life (i.e., transformation-fatigue interaction) are key issues that should be addressed in order to assess the fatigue of NiTi shape memory alloy more accurately. In this paper, the advances in the studies on the transformation ratcheting and ratcheting-fatigue interaction of super-elastic NiTi shape memory alloy in recent years are reviewed: First, experimental observation of the uniaxial transformation ratcheting and ratcheting-fatigue interaction of super-elastic NiTi alloy under the stress-controlled cyclic loading conditions is treated, and the detrimental effect of transformation ratcheting on the fatigue life is addressed; Secondly, two types of cyclic constitutive models (i.e., a macroscopic phenomenological model and a micromechanical one based on crystal plasticity) constructed to describe the transformation ratcheting of super-elastic NiTi alloy are discussed; Furthermore, an energy-based failure model is provided and dealt with by comparing its predicted fatigue lives with experimental ones; Finally, some suggestions about future work are made.     

Coupled thermo-mechanical analysis of shape memory alloy circular bars in pure torsion

Pure torsion of shape memory alloy (SMA) bars with circular cross section is studied by considering the effect of temperature gradient in the cross sections as a result of latent heat generation and absorption during forward and reverse phase transformations. The local form of energy balance for SMAs by taking into account the heat flux effect is coupled to a closed-form solution of SMA bars subjected to pure torsion. The resulting coupled thermo-mechanical equations are solved for SMA bars with circular cross sections. Several numerical case studies are presented and the necessity of considering the coupled thermo-mechanical formulation is demonstrated by comparing the results of the proposed model with those obtained by assuming an isothermal process during loading–unloading. Pure torsion of SMA bars in various ambient conditions (free and forced convection of air, and forced convection of water flow) subjected to different loading–unloading rates are studied and it is shown that the isothermal solution is valid only for specific combinations of ambient conditions and loading rates.     

Integrated numerical–experimental analysis of interfacial fatigue fracture in SnAgCu solder joints

In ball grid array (BGA) packages, solder balls are exposed to cyclic thermo-mechanical strains arising from the thermal mismatch between package components. Thermo-mechanical fatigue crack propagation in solder balls is almost always observed at the chip side of the bump/pad junction. The objective of the experimental part of this study is to characterize the bump/pad interface under fatigue loading. Fatigue specimens are prepared by reflowing Sn3.8Ag0.5Cu lead-free solder alloy on Ni/Au substrates. Obtained results show that fatigue damage evolution strongly depends on the microstructure. Applied strain and solder volume both have an influence on the fatigue damage mechanism. In the numerical part of the study, fatigue experiments are modeled using the finite element technique. A cohesive zone approach is used to predict the fatigue damage evolution in soldered connections. Crack propagation is simulated by an irreversible linear traction–separation cohesive zone law accompanied by a non-linear damage parameter. Cohesive zone elements are placed where failure is experimentally observed. Damage evolution parameters for normal and tangential interaction are scrutinized through dedicated fatigue tests in pure tensile and shear directions. The proposed cohesive zone model is quantitatively capable of describing fatigue failure in soldered joints, which can be further extended to a numerical life-time prediction tool in microelectronic packages.     

磁性形状记忆合金力磁耦合行为的唯象模型研究

本文基于热力学及耗散概念,推导了一种磁性形状记忆合金（MSMA）的力磁耦合三维唯象本构关系。采用内变量模拟微观相结构及磁结构的演化,考虑了马氏体相变过程及马氏体重定向过程。同时,本文摒弃了传统的单畴假设,运用双畴模型来模拟循环加载下的磁畴结构演化。根据文献中的二维加载情况的实验数据确定本模型的参数。数值模拟结果表明：本文的模型可以很好的捕捉磁性形状记忆合金的形状记忆效应、应变及磁化响应的滞后性。应变及磁化响应模拟结果明显比文献中的理论模型更加吻合实验数据,尤其是低磁场时尤为明显。